Title: Quick and Easy Apricot Bread
Categories: All newly t, Breads
Yield: 2 Servings

4 c Sifted flour
2 tb Baking soda
1 lb Dried apricots; cut in small
-pieces
2 c Water
2 c Sugar
3/4 c Shortening
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1 ts Ground cloves
1/2 ts Ground nutmeg
1 ts Salt
2 Eggs; beaten

Sift flour with baking soda; set aside. Cook apricots with water, sugar,
shortening, spices and salt for 5 minutes. Cool apricot mixture.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add eggs to sifted dry ingredients to cooled
apricot mixture. Pour mixture into 2 greased 5x9 inch loaf pans. Bake in
oven for 1hour. Makes 2 loaves.

Recipe by: Home Cooking July 1996 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #731 by
L979@aol.com on Aug 9, 1997