Strawberry Tea Bread
Makes 2 loaves
Prep time: 10 minutes (not including thawing time)
Bake time: 1 hour 10 minutes (1 hour on 3250 convection)
Ingredients:
2 packages frozen strawberries (total 20 oz)
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable or canola oil
2 cups sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
1 Tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 ? cups chopped nuts (Optional*)
Preparation
Grease & flour 2 (9 X 5 X 3 in) loaf pans**
Defrost strawberries. Sift together flour, cinnamon, soda and salt into a mixing bowl set aside. Beat eggs in a bowl until fluffy and lemon colored. Add cooking oil, sugar and defrosted strawberries. Mix until blended. Add the strawberry mixture to the flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until well blended. Stir in nuts.
Pour into greased and floured loaf pans.
Bake in a 3500 oven for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out of pans and cool on racks.
