Pawpaw bread

2 loaves

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Pawpaw pulp*
1¼ cup Apple juice or other fruit juice
¼ cup Vegetable oil
4 Eggs
1 tablespoon Vanilla
1 tablespoon Fresh orange rind or
1 teaspoon Dried orange rind
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
½ teaspoon Powdered cardamom
6½ cup Buckwheat flour or
4½ cup Whole wheat bread flour
2 teaspoons Baking soda
1 cup Chopped pecans

Directions

*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 8½ x 4 ½-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. From: Cathy Harned Date: 09-25-94

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