Cranberry Orange Quick Bread (Five Roses Flour - 1967)

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350f degrees.

Step 2: Stir flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.

Step 3: Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.

Step 4: Combine orange juice and grated rind with well beaten eggs.

Step 5: Pour all at once into dry ingredients, mixing just enough to dampen.

Step 6: Dust chopped cranberries and cherries with a tablespoon of flour, carefully fold into batter. Spoon into a well buttered bundt or tube pan.

Step 7: Sprinkle a few floured whole cranberries over top of batter.

Step 8: Bake in a moderate oven,350f degrees about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.

Step 9: Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove.

Step 10: Store overnight for easy slicing.

Step 11: Frost with confectioner's frosting, (sift 2 cups icing sugar, very slowly add boiling water, a tablespoon at a time, until right spreading consistency, spread on slightly cooled bread). Or just sprinkle with iceing sugar.

Step 12: Also delicious sliced with butter or toasted under broiler, spread with butter and sprinkled with cheddar.