Applesauce Spice Bread with Olive Oil (1980)

• 1 cup enriched white flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tspn baking soda
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 3/4 tspn cinnamon
• 1/4 tspn ground cloves
•  2 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup raisins
• 2 tbspns olive oil
• 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 1 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf pan. Combine and mix the first seven ingredients.

In a separate bowl, mix eggs, raisins, olive oil, brown sugar, applesauce, and walnuts. Add contents of the second bowl to the first bowl, all at once.   Stir just until the flour becomes moistened.

Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Cool approximately 15 minutes before cutting.

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(Origin - "Chicken Foot Soup and Other Recipes from the Pine Barrens" edited by Arlene Martin Ridgway, recipes by Pine Barrens residents. Published by Rutgers University Press, 1980. Pine Barrens, New Jersey is an Atlantic coast pine ecosystem that covers 7 New Jersey counties. This recipe was contributed by LeRoy H. Martin.)