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Coconut Sweet Bread

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 8 cups flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 8 ounces margarine
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
  • ½ teaspoon almond essence
  • ½ cup raisins
  • 1 ½ cups glace cherries, chopped
  • 1 pinch cinnamon and nutmeg.

Directions

  1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Rub in margarine until coarse like breadcrumbs. Add sugar, vanilla essence, almond essence, raisins, coconut, and chopped glace cherries.
  2. Beat eggs, and milk together. Make hole in the center of the dry mixture and mix together.
  3. Place mixture in greased loaf pans and cook at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 45 minutes.