Aunt Coras Nut Bread - egg

Method

• Cream together the egg and sugar.
• Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder, and add alternately to the egg/butter mixture with the milk.
• The batter will be very stiff.
• Lastly, mix in the nuts and raisins.
• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Place batter in two buttered loaf pans.
• Give pans a good thump to make sure batter has settled.
• Let stand twenty minutes before putting in the oven.
• Bake for about one hour, or until tester comes out clean and top is lightly browned.
• Cool on rack.
• Note: I generally use walnuts, but pecans would work also.
• My grandmother chopped her walnuts in a little metal hand - cranked chopper that fed the nuts into a glass jar.
• The nuts were relatively finely chopped, but still a textural presence in the bread.