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Orange-apricot Sweet Bread Recipe

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Ingredients

Directions

Step #1 In a bowl, 2/3 c sugar, beat 1/2 c butter, & cardamom with a mixer until fluffy.
Step #2 Add orange peel, egg yolk, egg, & sour cream.
Step #3 Beat to mix well.
Step #4 Stir together soda, baking powder, 1 c flour, & sliced apricots.
Step #5 Add to butter mixture & stir until evenly mixed.
Step #6 Butter & flour-dust a 5- to 6-c baking pan or paper baking mold (5 in.
Step #7 wide, 3 in.
Step #8 deep; 7 in.
Step #9 wide, 2 1/2 in.
Step #10 deep; 4 1/2- by 8 1/2 -in.
Step #11 loaf pan; or 8-in.
Step #12 square or round cake pan).
Step #13 Scrape batter into pan & spread level.
Step #14 If using smaller molds, fill no more than 1/3 full.
Step #15 (You'll have about 1 1/2 c batter.
Step #16 ) Sprinkle top batter evenly (in one or more pans) with 1 tbsp sugar.
Step #17 Bake on rack slightly below center in a 350° oven until bread springs back when lightly pressed in center, 35 to 40 mins for the whole loaf, & just begins to pull from pan sides, less for smaller portions.
Step #18 Let cool on a rack.
Step #19 Serve warm or cool, inverted from pan, then turned top side up.
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