Warm Pear and Hazelnut Tea Bread
Yield: 1 loaf
This recipe makes a dense, aromatic and moist quick bread. It's delicious right out of the oven and also is fabulous toasted with a little honey or butter.
Ingredients
PreparationIngredients
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour Add to list
- 1 teaspoon baking powder Add to list
- 1 teaspoon baking soda Add to list
- 1 teaspoon salt Add to list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional) Add to list
- 1 cup packed brown sugar Add to list
- 1 cup rolled grains such as oatmeal, barley, in any combination Add to list
- 1 cup coarsely chopped hazelnuts Add to list
- 2 large eggs, beaten Add to list
- 1/4 cup milk Add to list
- 1/4 cup melted butter Add to list
- 2 juicy ripe pears, seeded and chopped Add to list
- 1/3 cup pomegranate or apricot jelly Add to list
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Combine the flour, baking powder and soda, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add the brown sugar, rolled grains and hazelnuts. Combine the eggs and milk in a small bowl and stir in the butter. Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until blended. Fold in the pears. Pour into a buttered and floured loaf pan and bake for 1 hour.
Warm the jelly and brush over the surface of the bread.
Recipe by , PCC Chef
Source: Demonstrated on KING 5's "Gardening with Ciscoe" show, which aired on October 29, 2011.
ABOUT OUR CHEF: Lynne Vea
Lynne Vea is a graduate of the Executive Chef Program at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris and has been cooking with PCC Natural Markets since 2001. Featured on King-5’s "Gardening with Ciscoe," she demonstrates easy and delicious recipes using seasonal ingredients.
Lynne is an admired PCC Cooks instructor, teaching a variety of popular PCC Cooks classes throughout the year.
She loves to collect old cookbooks, hunt for wild berries, and cook seven-course dinners where the guests are encouraged to dance and cavort between courses.
Find more recipes from Lynne.
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Vanilla for the Hazelnut and Pear Bread
Hi Kathy,
To add some vanilla to this recipe (which would be delicious)you can stir 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract in with the milk and eggs or scrape the seeds out of 1/2 vanilla bean and fold that into the milk and egg mixture. Then proceed with the recipe. Have a great day! Lynne
November 01, 2010 at 10:21 AM — lynnevea
Warm Pear and Hazelnut Tea Bread
My daughter and I have made this recipe several times now, using different fruits (dried apricots--increase moisture a little; apples). A GREAT recipe, always delicious. What I like about your recipies we've tried is their simplicity and ease in finding ingredients. Thank you.
January 11, 2011 at 08:15 PM — Anonymous (not verified)
vegetarian?
I noticed that you have this marked as vegetarian, but it uses 2 eggs. How does that compute? Eggs are usually not part of a vegitarian's diet, unless they are "very loose" about their food choices.
August 31, 2011 at 09:41 AM — Rhonda (not verified)
Reply: VEGETARIAN?
Response from Nick Rose, Nutrition Educator for PCC Natural Markets.
Rhonda - thanks for bringing our attention to this...the definition that we use to define recipes as vegetarian, is based on a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet, and not a "strict" vegetarian diet, which is often referred to as a vegan diet. Here is a link to the Vegetarian Resource Group’s webpage, and also pasted below are their descriptions of the different classes of vegetarians: www.vrg.org
(from VRG)What are the different types of vegetarians?
1) Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian: does not eat meat, fish or fowl. Eats dairy and egg products.
2) Ovo Vegetarian: does not eat meat, fish, fowl or dairy products. Eats egg products.
3) Lacto Vegetarian: does not eat meat, fish, fowl or eggs. Eats dairy products.
4) Vegan: does not eat any animal products including meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy, honey, etc. Most vegans do not use any animal products such as silk, leather, wool, etc. as well.
Also - here is a link to the criteria that we use to categorize the recipes posted on our website: http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/pcc/recipes/guidelines
When searching for "vegetarian" recipes, you can also limit your search to egg free recipes by pressing control when you select "veg" and "egg free"... thanks again for your question!!
Nick Rose, MS
Nutrition Educator / PCC Natural Markets
206.547.1222 (ext. 1023) / www.pccnaturalmarkets.com
August 31, 2011 at 12:38 PM — rrabago
Recipe ??
Where is the vanilla in the recipe?
October 30, 2010 at 09:16 AM — Kathy_