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lenora ruth's tropical zucchini bread


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__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
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
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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Lenora Ruth's Tropical Zucchini Bread

Ingredients:
1 egg
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup white sugar
1 cup grated zucchini
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon bakin' powder
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup currants [or raisins]

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.
3) In small saucepan boil one cup water, then add the currants
[or raisins], and boil for about two minutes. Drain well.
4) In mixin' bowl, beat together the egg, oil, and sugar.
5) Stir in the zucchini and vanilla extract.
6) In separate bowl, combine the flour, bakin' powder, bakin' soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, coconut, walnuts, and currants [or raisins]
and blend thoroughly.
7) Pour the flour mixture all at once over the egg mixture,
then stir to moisten.
8) Turn batter into the prepared pan and bake 'til bread tests done, about one hour.
9) Cool in pan for ten minutes, then finish coolin' on a wire rack.

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