Very Good Recipes of Bread from The Iowa Housewife
There are 40 Bread recipes on the blog The Iowa Housewife. (1613 on all the blogs)
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Family Favorites - Buttermilk Chive Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
03/08/13 10:00
This easy bread recipe is perfect to use Spring chives. These very nice loaves are excellent for ham, egg salad or chicken salad sandwiches and are delicious toasted. If you want to make 1 loaf in the food processor, click here. Buttermilk Chive Bread -...
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Family Favorites - Bran and Wheat Germ Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
02/15/13 10:00
This is one of our favorite breads – the potato flakes make it moist and it keeps longer. The bran and wheat germ are optional; I sometimes just use one or the other. I slice these loaves when they are very cool; package in bread bags and freeze. We remove...
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Amaretto Bread Loaf
By The Iowa Housewife
12/31/12 10:00
The bread recipe I used today is a Better Homes and Gardens favorite for bread machines. I no longer own a bread machine so did it with my mixer. If you want to use a bread machine, just follow the directions that come with your machine as to the order...
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Pineapple Carrot Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
12/06/12 10:00
If you are a fan of carrot cake, you will love this quick bread. It tastes like carrot cake and the pineapple adds a nice touch of flavor. Quick breads are just that, quick to make. Do not over mix them. This recipe is from the Taste Of Home Baking book...
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Hawaiian Sweet Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
12/03/12 10:00
I have seen recipes for Hawaiian Sweet Bread before, and for sale in the grocery, but hadn’t tried it until this week. This recipe is from the "The Taste of Home Baking Book " , and makes enough for gifts. I made one loaf with an egg wash and a little coarse...
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Coconut Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
11/28/12 10:00
Myrna and I both had coconut on the brain when we looked at "The Taste of Home Baking Book." She chose coconut cake in little, fancy Bundt pans that were beautiful…I chose this loaf of coconut quick bread that’s my kind of recipe – no fuss. Any baked item...
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Triple-chocolate Quick Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
11/14/12 10:00
My husband actually liked this chocolate bread recipe from "The Taste of Home Baking Book" – he’s not usually a chocolate fan. It uses applesauce for part of the fat – and is chocolaty without being over-the-top. He thought a few nuts would have made them...
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Three-c Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
11/07/12 08:00
As you know, we like quick breads. They are often a more nutritious dessert or coffee-time choice, as in this recipe, from Better Homes and Gardens All-time Favorite Bread Recipes , with plenty of added carrots and coconut and less sugar and fats than most...
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Date Apple Coffee Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
11/05/12 10:30
Quick breads are among my favorite things to bake. Everyone likes them, they keep well, sell at bake sales and are just plain good eating. That said, this is one of, if not the best, quick breads I bake. From the Better Homes & Gardens All Time Favorite...
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Olive Quick Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
09/13/12 08:00
I made the quick bread mix recipe last week, and shared some with Myrna. This is the bread recipe I chose to make from it, as I like savory bread, and I especially like olives. It was really convenient to just get my extra ingredients ready, and mix the...
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Nutty Applesauce Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
09/12/12 08:00
Today I used the Homemade Crisco Quick Bread Mix from the Crisco Cooking book that Sue had made for me. We shared a batch of the mix, but I am going to make some up to have on hand in my freezer. It was good, fast and quick to make. The breads turned out...
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Homemade Crisco Quick Bread Mix
By The Iowa Housewife
09/11/12 08:00
When Myrna and I saw this quick bread mix and the recipes that used it in “Crisco Cooking" we knew we had to make it. I volunteered to make the mix and we split it, both making some recipes from it. We will share some of those the rest of the week. I can...
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Honey White Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
04/23/12 11:56
Ina Gartensays she doesn’t usually spend time making bread, but that this is herfoolproof recipe for the “good white bread” that she calls for in many of herrecipes. It is nice egg bread that hada very even grain. Like many egg breads,it gets dry quickly,...
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Yeast Bread Ingredients and Finishes
By The Iowa Housewife
04/21/12 13:06
French Bread with Egg White Wash I'm going to bake some bread from the Barefoot Contessa next week, and I thought it would be a good time to visit about bread ingredients and finishes. BREAD INGREDIENTS Essentially all you need to make bread is wheat flour,...
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Whole Wheat Batter Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
04/13/12 10:30
Yes, there are still cold days and nights, and for supper tonight we had vegetable beef soup and home made Whole Wheat Batter Bread. The recipe for the bread is from the Farm Journal’s Timesaving Country Cookbook . I do not bake a lot of bread, but this...
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Apple Pecan Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
04/06/12 08:00
This recipe from "The Best ofByerly's" looked like a good one to try out the tube pans that Bonnie hadgiven me. These pans were from 1985 - and were pretty popular for awhile back then for baking appetizer breads. To bake quick breads in thesepans, it helps...
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Spring Holiday Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
03/14/12 09:00
This is a nice spring loaf for Easter or otherholidays from "Fleischmann's Best-ever Breads." I shared a loaf with Myrna’s family – and madeour loaf into French toast – delicious! I had some coarse sugar that I use for Dutch Puff Pillows – so I usedthat...
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Fleischmann's Master Bread Dough
By The Iowa Housewife
03/12/12 07:00
I don’tusually try “master” recipes, but this one from "Fleischmann's Yeast BestEver Breads" was a winner. Thedough was easy to work with, and quick to make. I liked the idea of making a plain loaf of bread for breakfast toast,and a fancy-shaped loaf for...
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Fleishmann's Yeast Bread Books
By The Iowa Housewife
03/10/12 08:00
One of my favorite go-to bread-baking books is Fleischmann’sYeast Best-Ever Breads . A large paperback,with 79 pages, it was published in 1993, 125 years of Fleischmann’s being inbusiness. My copy is very well used - I think I sent for it with an offer...
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White Batter Bread
By The Iowa Housewife
02/27/12 10:00
This is such good bread, we couldn't wait to share it! While I do not bake bread often, when I do recipes like this batter bread from the older edition of Fleishman yeast baking recipes are the ones I use. The ease of preparation and the quick time make...
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