Gingered Pear Bread

Gingered Pear Bread

Ingredients:
3 cups chopped unpeeled pears (about 3 medium)
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon finely chopped gingerroot
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

Directions:
Heat oven to 350º. Grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 2
1/2 inches or 9 × 5 × 3 inches. Mix pears, sugar, oil, gingerroot and eggs
in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into pans.
Bake 8-inch loaves about 65 minutes, 9-inch loaves about 50 minutes or
until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes.
Loosen sides of loaves from pans; remove from pans. Cool completely on
wire rack before slicing. Store tightly wrapped in refrigerator up to 1
week.
2 loaves (24 slices each)
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Please note, if you should change this recipe it will no longer be an
approved Betty Crocker® Recipe.
Copyright:
"© General Mills, Inc. 1998."
Yield:
"2 Loaves"
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