What I'm eating
Ginger Pear Bread
1/4 Cup butter (1/2 stick) at room temperature
1 Cup sugar
2 Eggs
1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 - 1 1/2 ripe pears (bosc/anjou are best) peeled (can be unpeeled if you like) medium diced
1/2 cup small dice crystallized ginger (I used 1/4 cup crystallized ginger and grated up ~ 1 oz of fresh peeled ginger, juice and all, into the bowl)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prepare one 9x7 loaf pan with pan spray
Sift together flour/baking powder/baking soda. Set aside
Cream together the butter and the sugar until fully mixed
Add eggs one at a time, incorporating well between each addition
Add vanilla
Alternate mixing in the sifted flour mixture and the buttermilk starting with ~ 1/3 of the flour Add half the buttermilk and so on, ending with the final 1/3 of the flour. mix until the flour just starts to disappear.
Mix in the ginger
Fold in the pears
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan
Bake for 50-60 minutes (check earlier if you have an odd oven like I do)
Cool in the pan for ~ 5 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack to complete cooling
1/4 Cup butter (1/2 stick) at room temperature
1 Cup sugar
2 Eggs
1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 - 1 1/2 ripe pears (bosc/anjou are best) peeled (can be unpeeled if you like) medium diced
1/2 cup small dice crystallized ginger (I used 1/4 cup crystallized ginger and grated up ~ 1 oz of fresh peeled ginger, juice and all, into the bowl)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prepare one 9x7 loaf pan with pan spray
Sift together flour/baking powder/baking soda. Set aside
Cream together the butter and the sugar until fully mixed
Add eggs one at a time, incorporating well between each addition
Add vanilla
Alternate mixing in the sifted flour mixture and the buttermilk starting with ~ 1/3 of the flour Add half the buttermilk and so on, ending with the final 1/3 of the flour. mix until the flour just starts to disappear.
Mix in the ginger
Fold in the pears
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan
Bake for 50-60 minutes (check earlier if you have an odd oven like I do)
Cool in the pan for ~ 5 minutes then turn out onto cooling rack to complete cooling