Week 17 - Peanut Butter Bacon Bread

  Peanut Butter Bacon Bread

Recipe 17 - 52 in 2022

Bread #3

    There's just something about the sweet & salty combination. I first made this bread a few years ago. It is from a recipe booklet produced by the Oklahoma Peanut Commission. There is not date in the booklet, but from the pictures, fonts and coloring, I believe it is mid-late 1960s to the early 1970s. There are truly some recipes which I would never want to try, that obviously taste good to some people, and that's okay. An example being the Peanut Seafood Salad, which has includes rice, tuna, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, lemon and peanuts. That said, there are numerous recipes which I want to try and I obviously liked the Peanut Butter Bacon Bread, if I decided to make it again, for this blog.  I just had a warm slice and it was yummy. I added butter and some apricot jam. 

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 tsp melted shortening

1 cup milk

1 egg, well, beaten

1 cup peanut butter

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups flour

3 tsp baking powder

1 cup chopped unsalted peanuts (I used about 1/2 cup, because 1) that's all I had and 2) I used some pretty chunky peanut butter)

1 cup bacon chips, crisp (chopped, crisp bacon)

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a regular sized loaf pan. Melt shortening. Add sugar, milk and egg to a bowl and mix, before adding the shortening (re-melt the shortening a bit if needed; remember even though it's a small amount, you don't want it hot, because you don't want to 'scramble' the egg). Add peanut butter and stir to combine. Mix in salt, flour and baking powder (It may be a little clumpy looking). Stir in peanuts and bacon. Pour batter into your greased loaf pan and let rest for 20-25 minutes. Bake in your pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Makes 1 loaf. Serve warm with butter and jam if you wish. 

   

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Peanut Recipe Booklet by the Oklahoma Peanut Commission; Peanuts are saucy!