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Title: Pawpaw Bread
Categories: Bread Fruit Nut Insert
Yield: 2 Loaves

3cPawpaw pulp*
1 1/4cApple juice or - other fruit juice
1/4cVegetable oil
4 Eggs
1tbVanilla
1tbFresh orange rind or
1tsDried orange rind
1tsNutmeg
1/2tsPowdered cardamom
6 1/2cBuckwheat flour or
4 1/2cWhole wheat bread flour
2tsBaking soda
1cChopped pecans

*You can substitute wild persimmons or bananas.

Mix fruit, juice, oil, eggs, vanilla, orange rind and spices in a blender or by hand. Mix the flour with the baking soda. Combine the wet and dry ingredients. Fold in nuts.

Put into 2 oiled 8 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch bread pans. Bake 1 hour in a preheated 350 F. oven or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

From "Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places" by 'Wildman' Steve Brill with Evelyn Dean. William Morrow & Company, Inc. In food columnist Mary Alice Holt's 09/15/94 "New Magazine, Book Designed to Get You Cooking" article in "The (Elizabethtown, KY) News-Enterprise." Pg. D1. Posted by Cathy Harned.

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