Southern Peach Bread

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A sweet, dense quick bread chock full of sweet Georgia peaches.
from thatskinnychickcanbake.com

  • 20 mins
  • 90 mins

Ingredients

  • 2-3 teaspoons softened butter
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 1/2 cups peeled and diced peaches.

Preparation

Step 1

Grease a 9 x 5-inch bread pan with butter, then dust with sugar (or flour). Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, brown sugar, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon in a large bowl. Set aside.

Whisk together the eggs, oil and milk. Stir into dry ingredients. Do not over mix. Fold in the peaches.

Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Level batter with on offset spatula.

Bake for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean.

Let cool on wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and let finish cooling before slicing.

Yield: 16 servings