Shelly's Recipe

ORANGE PEACH BREAD WITH PEACH NUT GLAZE

Category: Quick Breads

2 eggs
1/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup chopped canned peaches, with a little of the syrup
1/2 orange, grated. (Use fruit, juice and peel. Remove any large pieces of membrane.)

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat together first 5 ingredients until blended. Combine and add the next 4 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not overmix.

Divide batter between 4 greased and lightly floured mini-loaf foil pans (6x3x2-inches), place pans on a cookie sheet, and bake in a 325 degrees F. oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean.

Allow to cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pans and continue cooling on a rack. When cool, brush tops with Peach Nut Glaze. Yields 4 mini-loaves.

PEACH NUT GLAZE:

2 tablespoons peach syrup (from canned peaches, above)
2 tablespooons finley chopped canned peaches
2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
1 cup sifted powdered sugar

Stir together all the ingredients until blended.