Friendly Presbyterian Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups skim milk
• 1/4 cup 1% fat buttermilk
• 5 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 honey
• 1 package instant pistachio pudding mix
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1/3 cup sunflower oil
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 egg (or 2 egg whites)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups almonds, chopped coarse
• 2 cups dried cherries

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350.
• 2 in a large non reactive bowl, mix 3/4 cup of the skim milk, the buttermilk, 3/4 cup of the flour, 1 t.
• 3 sugar, and the yeast.
• 4 set aside for ten minutes or untilthe mixture starts to bubble.
• 5 in a large mixing bowl, place the remaining ingredients, except for the almonds and cherries and mix well.
• 6 fold in the nuts and cherries.
• 7 lightly wipe four 10x5x2 inch loaf pans with vegetable oil, divide the dough among the pans and bake for one hour of until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.