Cinnamon Cottage Cheese Bread
with Raisins, Oranges and Walnuts

This is a lovely breakfast bread, not sweet, very moist and nicely flavored with cinnamon and orange.

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup small curd, low-fat cottage cheese
• 1/2 orange, grated (use fruit, juice and peel - remove any hard membranes)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup yellow raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

Instructions

1. Beat sugar, butter add egg add cottage cheese and orange peel until blended.
2. Combine and add the next 6 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not over-mix.
3. Scrape batter into a greased 8 x 4 inch foil loaf pan, and sprinkle top with mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
4. Place pan on a cookie sheet and bake in at 350 degrees F for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean.
5. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, and then remove pan and continue cooling on a rack.
6. Serve with cream cheese and jam and a few sliced strawberries.

Attribution

Posted by Olga at Recipe Goldmine 2/7/2002 2:47 pm.