It’s a beautiful, cool morning so I baked a new recipe for Rhubarb Bread, and I also toasted a batch of Peanut Butter Granola. I won’t get away with just telling you how wonderful my kitchen smells now, and how eager I am to try this bread, so here are the two recipes. If you’re gluten free, the granola can be made without any wheat ingredients–and the mixture of peanut butter and coconut oil make this a real treat for breakfast, or as a topper for ice cream or fresh fruit. Enjoy!
RHUBARB BREAD
1 stick butter, softened
1/2 C. white sugar
1/2 C. brown sugar
2 eggs
2 T. milk
2 C. flour
1/2 C. old fashioned oats
1 tsp. baking soda
Dash of salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 C. hot cooked rhubarb
Preheat oven to 375º. Grease/spray a 9×5″ bread pan. Cream the butter and sugars, then add the eggs and milk and mix well. Add the dry ingredients, vanilla, and mix until smooth. Then blend in the cooked rhubarb. Bake about 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then finish cooling the loaf on a wire rack.
PEANUT BUTTER GRANOLA
2 1/2 C. old fashioned oats
1/2 C. wheat germ, corn meal, or other granular grain/cereal
1/2 C. sunflower seeds or other chopped nuts
2 T. ground flaxseed meal
1 T. cinnamon
Dash of salt
1/4 C. coconut oil
1/3 C. peanut butter
2 T. maple syrup
Preheat oven to 300º. Place dry ingredients in a large bowl. Measure the coconut oil, peanut butter and maple syrup into a glass measuring cup and then microwave it for about 40 seconds. Stir to blend, and then stir the liquid into the dry ingredients. Mix well to coat all the grains–using the back of a large spoon to rub the liquid into the grains helps. Cover an edged cookie sheet with foil. Pour the granola onto the pan and spread evenly, then toast in the oven for about 30 minutes, stirring about every 10 minutes. Cool. Add dried cranberries, raisins, etc if desired.
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Donna, my husband is a HUGE rhubarb fan, so he loves that bread, too. I’m going to bake it in mini loaf pans next time–sometimes the upper center of these moist quick breads doesn’t get all the way baked, it seems, in a big pan. Thanks for your note!
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