Pesto bread with cheese and pine nuts

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 Eggs
3 tablespoons Sugar
⅓ cup Oil
¾ cup Cream
2 cups Self-rising flour
½ teaspoon Baking powder
1½ teaspoon Sweet basil flakes
⅓ cup Parmesan cheese; grated
¼ cup Pine nuts; lightly toasted

Directions

Beat together first 4 ingredients until blended. Combine and add the next 4 ingredients and stir until dry ingredients are blended. Do not overmix.

Stir in the pine nuts. Spread batter into a greased 8x4" loaf pan, place pan on a cookie sheet, and bake in a 350~ oven for about 45 minutes or until a cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan for 15 minutes, and then remove from pan and continue cooling on a rack. Use a serrated bread knife to cut into slices. Serve warm with sweet whipped butter. Yields 1 loaf.

NOTE: If you use all-purpose flour, then increase baking powder to 3 tsp.

and add a pinch of salt.

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #805 by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Sep 25, 1997

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