Cranberry Pecan Bread: A whole lot of tasty holiday eating
Brad Hedeman, skilled marketing manager at Mail Order and wonderful writer, says that a loaf of Cranberry Pecan Bread is the “kissing cousin to our extremely popular Pecan Raisin Bread.” Over half a pound of dried cranberries and pecans are packed into every loaf. It’s as dense and intense as our Pecan Raisin and you can use it in all the same ways. Toast and spread it with butter or Creamery Cream Cheese. Use it as a base for chicken salad sandwiches. We don’t add any sugar (there’s a small amount in the dried cranberries), shortening, or oil. Just unbleached and unbromated flour, filtered water, sea salt, pecans, and dried cranberries. When we hit the holidays, it’ll make a great gift, but in the meantime it’s probably just something folks ought to be buying for themselves. As with Chocolate Cherry bread, the quality of the bread itself is what actually makes the loaf so special. We use organic flour and it’s a naturally leavened dough with 18 hours of rise time. The result is chewy, dense, not super sweet, and terrifically tasty.
Cranberries, by the way, are native to both the Americas and Europe. Many believe that in New England they were introduced to Europeans by Algonquian people—the name for the berry in Narragansett is sasemineash. The Europeans called them cranberries, from the German, but also referred to them as bearberries. Given my attraction to alliteration I’m tempted to try to alter the name of this annual offering to Bearberry Bread. Whatever one calls it, we can probably come to consensus fairly quickly that it’s terrific.
We only get this bread November and December every year (and weekends in July), but it freezes really well and you’ll be glad to defrost a loaf in March or April, right along with the snow outside.
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Brad Hedeman, skilled marketing manager at Mail Order and wonderful writer, says that a loaf of Cranberry Pecan Bread is the “kissing cousin to our extremely popular Pecan Raisin Bread.” Over half a pound of dried cranberries and pecans are packed into every loaf. It’s as dense and intense as our Pecan Raisin and you can use it in all the same ways. Toast and spread it with butter or Creamery Cream Cheese. Use it as a base for chicken salad sandwiches. We don’t add any sugar (there’s a small amount in the dried cranberries), shortening, or oil. Just unbleached and unbromated flour, filtered water, sea salt, pecans, and dried cranberries. When we hit the holidays, it’ll make a great gift, but in the meantime it’s probably just something folks ought to be buying for themselves. As with Chocolate Cherry bread, the quality of the bread itself is what actually makes the loaf so special. We use organic flour and it’s a naturally leavened dough with 18 hours of rise time. The result is chewy, dense, not super sweet, and terrifically tasty.
Cranberries, by the way, are native to both the Americas and Europe. Many believe that in New England they were introduced to Europeans by Algonquian people—the name for the berry in Narragansett is sasemineash. The Europeans called them cranberries, from the German, but also referred to them as bearberries. Given my attraction to alliteration I’m tempted to try to alter the name of this annual offering to Bearberry Bread. Whatever one calls it, we can probably come to consensus fairly quickly that it’s terrific.
Hello. This is kind of an “unconventional” question , but have other visitors asked you how get the menu bar to look like you’ve got it? I also have a blog and am really looking to alter around the theme, however am scared to death to mess with it for fear of the search engines punishing me. I am very new to all of this …so i am justnot positive exactly how to try to to it all yet. I’ll just keep working on it one day at a time Thanks for any help you can offer here.
Hello ballet tutus,
We are using a custom theme that uses our handmade graphics in place of a text menu. You could build one too using a graphics program and some knowledge of HTML. Or you might be able to find an eager freelancer who could create one for you for a small cost.
The great part of having one is that we think it looks awesomely wonky (or wonkily awesome)! The downside is that it is less flexible; you won’t be able to add more pages easily as you would on Blogspot. Also, because it uses graphics and not text, it probably does affect our search results somehow (we’re not sure what the big secret formula is either). But the one thing we’ve learned about dealing with search engines is this: Content is king! If you have lots of posts that people enjoy reading, you will be rewarded with tons of hits and search engine love.
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:: Billie Lee
Zingerman’s Web Developer