How to Make Quick Bread

Here are the simple steps in making quick bread.
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Step One - Gather Your Ingredients

After reading your quick bread recipe a few times, it's a good idea to gather your ingredients. This way you won't be half way through making it and realize you're missing something. Plus your quick bread will cook more evenly if all of the ingredients are room temperature.

Typical Quick Bread Ingredients

• flour
• sugar, white and/or brown
• baking powder
• baking soda
• salt
• butter, margarine, vegetable oil or shortening

• eggs
• milk
• Addens like fruit or nuts

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Step Two - Prep Work

Once you've gathered your ingredients, it's time to do an necessary prep work. Some of the things you may need to do are:

• Toast and chop nuts
• Peel and mash bananas
• Peel, core and chop apples
• Grate zucchini or carrots

After the prep work is completed, it's time to turn on the oven.
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Step Three - Mixing Dry Ingredients

Ever gotten that occasional bad taste from baking soda when eating a muffin or cookie? That won't ever happen again if you mix your dry ingredients with a wire whisk.
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Step Four - Mixing Sugar with the Wet Ingredients

In a separate bowl, completely combine the sugar with the eggs and any wet ingredients that may be called for in the recipe. Some wet ingredients are: milk, water, juices and extracts.
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Step Five - Mixing the Wet and The Dry

Mix the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients. Only mix until dry ingredients are just wet. Don't over mix. If you happen to have addens such as fruit and/or nuts, stir them in at the end.
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Step Six - Put Batter into Pans

To make dividing the batter between two pans, I like to use a measuring cup. For totally accurate measurement, use a scale to weigh the pans and adjust accordingly.
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Most recipes state that the quick bread should be cooled in the pans for anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes. This will lessen the chances of the bread of falling apart once removed from the pan.
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Carefully, remove the loaves from the pans to finish cooling upright on the wire racks.

Note: For more flavorful breads, try resisting the temptation to eat them warm from the oven. Quick breads need time to meld their flavors. This is why most taste better the next day.

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