Mix and Match Quick Bread

from Frozen Assets

• 3 cups flour (whole wheat and white make a nice blend)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon (or ginger, cloves etc.)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup oil
• 2 cups sugar (we cut this down and see very little difference)
• 2 cups Mix-N-Match (see list below)
• 3 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup chopped nuts or seeds (we leave these out)

Sift together dry ingredients. In separate bowl, beat eggs; add oil and sugar; cream together. Stir in Mix-N-Match and vanilla. Add dry ingredients; mix well. Stir in nuts. Spoon into two well-greased loaf pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. When cool, wrap bread; label and freeze. Makes 2 loaves.

Mix-N-Match (one of more of the following to equal 2 cups)

• Apples, grated or chopped
• Applesauce
• Apricots
• Bananas, mashed or chopped
• Berries
• Carrots, cooked and mashed or grated
• Cherries
• Coconut
• Cranberries, dry or raw, chopped
• Dates or figs, pitted and finely chopped
• Lemon, 1/2 cup juice
• Marmalade (omit one cup sugar)
• Mincemeat
• Oranges, chopped
• Orange juice, 1/2 cup juice
• Peaches, fresh or canned, chopped
• Pears, fresh or canned, chopped
• Pineapple
• Prunes, chopped
• Pumpkin, mashed
  
• Raisins
• Rhubarb, finely chopped (add 1/2 cup more sugar)
• Strawberries, well drained
  
• Sweet potato or yams, cooked and mashed or grated
• Zucchini, grated and well drained