HOW TO MAKE MANDY’S FIVE MINUTE CRANBERRY QUICK BREAD

Ingredients:
1TBS Flour
1 ½ cups fresh or frozen chopped cranberry
½ cup of chopped walnuts *note it is optional
2 cups of flour (sifted)
1 ½ TSP baking powder
½ TSP salt
1 cup sugar
½ cup shortening
1 egg (slightly beaten)
¾ cup orange juice
1 orange for 1 TSP orange rind (grated)

PREP WORK: Heat oven to 350* FH while our oven heats up we want to begin prepping the ingredients. We’ll start with chopping and coating the cranberries and nuts. The way I do this process is place both the ½ cup walnuts and 1 ½ cups cranberries in to an electric grinder and grind until the mixture is thinly diced, *(note) if you do not have an electric grinder you can do this manually with a knife. After we’ve got the consistency right, we want to put it into our first empty mixing bowl and fold 1 TBS of flour in to the mix. Set that aside, Now, we want to sift 2 cups flour, 1 ½ TSP baking powder and ½ TSP of salt together. To do this simply pour each ingredient into our sifting device, *be advised, the sifting process is done to make the bread less dense, if you do not have a sifter, they are very in expensive, you should be able to pick one up at your local dollar store. Now take one of your empty mixing bowls and sift all three ingredients in. After we’ve sifted the ingredients, we want to stir our 1 cup of sugar into the mix, next we’ll measure ½ a cup of shortening and cut it into the mix. The easiest way I found to do this is to take two butter knifes and cut them chris cross into the mix. Now crack one egg and add our ¾ cup orange juice into our coffee cup and beat together with a fork until the consistency is mixed thoroughly and pour this into our dry mix. Next, using our spatula, we need to add our cranberry and nut mixture into the dry mix as well. Now for our final piece of prep work, this step can be little tricky. We have to add the orange rind, to do this we’ll need to take our full orange and peel the skin using a potato peeler *(note) you want to peel the skin just enough to not include the white skin underneath. Now we want to take our skins and cut them into tiny strips using any kind of knife available, I use a paring knife. Now take our orange rind and fold them into the, our mix is now fully prepared.

COOKING: Now we want to take our loaf pan and grease the inside with cooking spray, I would also advise you sprinkle a light coat of flour in the pan as well, to make certain the bread does not stick to the sides. Our final step is to pour the mix completely and evenly into the loaf pan. Then we place it into our preheated oven and let cook for 1 full hour once the bread is cooked cool the loaf in the loaf pan for 30min once it is cooled. (one hour later) our bread is now complete and ready to complement any fall meal, just lift it our carefully, put it on your favorite serving plate, slice it up and serve!