Cranberry Pecan Bread: A whole lot of tasty holiday eating
Over the years, our Cranberry Pecan Bread has become one of the most well loved of Zingerman’s classics for the holiday season. And this weekend, we’ll all have a chance to come by and grab some as part of a very exciting midsummer Special Bake.
Brad Hedeman, longtime marketing manager at Mail Order and a wonderful writer, once called the Cranberry Pecan Bread from the Bakehouse “the kissing cousin to our extremely popular Pecan Raisin Bread.” Each handmade loaf is packed with almost half a pound of dried cranberries and pecans. The naturally leavened dough is made with organic flour, filtered water, and sea salt, plus the pecans and cranberries—no added sugar, shortening, or oil—and it has a long rise time of 18 hours! The result is chewy, not super sweet, and supremely tasty.
The loaf is as dense and intense as the Pecan Raisin, and you can enjoy it in all the same ways. Try the bread toasted, with Vermont Creamery Cultured Butter or our handmade, no-vegetable-gum Zingerman’s Cream Cheese. Alternatively, use it as a base for chicken or tuna salad sandwiches. It’s great with Zingerman’s semisoft Manchester cheese, and is a perfect pairing with the French Fourme d’Ambert or any of our other excellent blue cheeses. It makes really fine French toast as well—just give the slices of bread time to soak up the batter, then pan-fry and top with butter and syrup! Whole loaves of the Cranberry Pecan are a wonderful way to add a bit of beauty to your dining table, too. And if you do have any left over, cut it into cubes; toss with extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, and freshly ground pepper; and bake into some seriously delicious croutons for salad or snacking!
2 responses to “Cranberry Pecan Bread from Zingerman’s Bakehouse”
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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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Zingerman’s Web Developer