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cousin eula's strawberry bread


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__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
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It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

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__Elsa Schiaparelli

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in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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Cousin Eula's Strawberry Bread

Ingredients:
1 quart fresh strawberries, hulled
2 cups white sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon bakin' powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup fresh mint, finely chopped
1 and 1/2 cups almonds, sliced
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 and 1/4 cups vegetable oil

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Grease and flour two 9"x5" loaf pans.
3) In a mixin' bowl, mash together the strawberries and
one cup of the sugar.
4) In another mixin' bowl, combine the flour, bakin' powder, salt, cinnamon, mint, and almonds.
5) In yet another mixin' bowl, beat the eggs together with the remainin' sugar, then add the vegetable oil and strawberries and mix thoroughly.
6) Stir in the dry ingredients. Batter will be thick.
7) Divide the batter between the loaf pans then bake 'til bread
tests done, approximately one hour. Top should be lightly browned.
8) Cool in pans for about fifteen minutes, then finish cooling on
a wire rack before slicing.

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