Praline Apple Bread

I got Southern Living for a year and this recipe made my subscription worthwhile.  It has everything good, in it.  It is the perfect quick bread for my husband. A  moist sour cream bread with pecans and apples.

This does not imply that I have not gotten lots of good recipes from Southern Living.  I found wonderful dishes to make.  The recipes appear to be relatively easy and ingredients quickly located.  Recently, I am finding Eating Well and Cooking Light to have more of the recipes, I am looking for.

I am slowly working my way through my magazines.  One year, I went on a spree, ordering subscriptions to every foodie magazine, I could find.  It is taking me way more than  a year to make a dent in these.  I enjoy reading them and inevitably find recipes in each and every one.  I am torn between magazines and books, both which line the shelves.

Praline Apple Bread – adapted from Southern Living – September 2009

Ingredients:

•  1 and 1/2 cups pecans, divided into 1/2 cup and one cup, chopped

1 cup granulated sugar
8 ounces sour cream
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon guar gum
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups peeled and chopped Granny Smiths
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup margarine
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together the granulated sugar, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla until blended.
 In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, guar gum, baking powder, soda, and salt,
Add to sour cream mixture, mixing until combined.
By hand, stir in the chopped apple, raisins and 1/2 cup of the toasted pecans.
Spoon batter into greased loaf pan.
Sprinkle with chopped pecans and press nuts lightly into the batter.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 65 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan for ten minutes.
Remove to wire rack.
In a small saucepan, melt margarine and brown sugar. 
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.  (I did it in the microwave without the stirring)
 Remove bread from pan.
Drizzle top  of bread with brown sugar and margarine.
Let cool completely.  We didn’t.  We couldn’t.    

 

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