How To Make Quick Breads

Here's How:

1. Choose your recipe and assemble ingredients; grease and prepare pans as directed in the recipe.
2. Sift together flour, leavening (baking powder or soda), and salt if the recipe calls for this step.
3. Mix sugar and dry flavorings into the dry ingredients.
4. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
5. Beat together eggs, oil, and any other liquid ingredients in a separate bowl.
6. Add the egg mixture all at once to the well in the dry ingredients.
7. Mix the batter, stirring only until combined. This is the trick to tender quick breads. There will be some lumps visible; that's okay.
8. Immediately pour batter into the prepared loaf pans or muffin cups and bake until golden brown.
9. Remove from pans immediately and cool on wire rack, if the recipe tells you to. Some breads cool in the pan; follow recipe instructions.

Tips:

1. Don't overmix the batter. Overmixed quick breads have a tough texture and large tunnels running through them instead of tender texture and small air holes.
2. A crack in the top of the quick bread loaf is typical.
3. Wrap these breads tightly in plastic wrap or plastic bags. They actually get better with age!
4. I think paper liners for muffin cups are essential, but you can grease the cups well instead.

What You Need:

• recipe
• ingredients
• loaf pan or muffin tin
• shortening
• bowl