Apple, Apricot And Walnut Loaf

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup melted butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 grated orange, juice and rind of
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup chopped dried apricot
• 1 large cooking apple

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease a 2 pound loaf pan.
• 3 sift together the flour, baking powder, bran and salt into a large mixing bowl.
• 4 add the melted butter, sugar, eggs, orange rind and juice.
• 5 stir, then beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
• 6 stir in the walnuts and apricots.
• 7 peel, quarter and core the apple, chop it up roughly and add it to the mixture.
• 8 stir, then spoon into the prepared pan and level the top.
• 9 bake for 1 hour or until a cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean.
• 10 cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool completely.