Cranberry Casserole Bread

from Dilys Buchan

Yield

1 loaf

Ingredients

• 2 cups presifted flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp soda
• 1 tsp salt
• ¼ cup shortening
• ¾ cup orange juice
• 1 tbsp grated orange rind
• 2 eggs well beaten
• 1 cup coarsely chopped cranberries
• ½ cup chopped glace green cherries

Directions

1. Sift together: flour, sugar, baking powder baking soda and salt
2. Cut in shortening
3. Combine juice, rind and eggs. Add all at once to dry ingredients, mixing just enough to dampen
4. Dust chopped cranberries and cherries with 1 tsp flour and carefully fold into mixture
5. Spoon into loaf pan.
6. Bake 350º about one hour
7. Frosting if desired – Slowly add boiling water to 2 cups icing sugar until right for spreading. Drizzle over loaf.