{"id":2393,"slug":"orange-bread","title":"Orange Bread","description":"This recipe for orange bread, originally called \"Grandma-Ag's orange bread\" by the recipe contributor, makes a quickbread flavored with orange peel. From the original contributor:\"This bread is a fond memory of my childhood, visiting Agnes Frances Primm, my Grandma-Ag. As a young adult, I tried to duplicate the recipe, and unable, I went back and begged her for the secrets of it. When I asked her how long it had taken to develop the tricky recipe, she flattened my ego by telling me she'd gotten it out of a magazine years before! I like to make it for Christmas.\"","ingredients_raw":["Component 1","1 cup (125 g) Orange peel","½ cup (110 g) White sugar","60 g Beaten egg","1 cup (225 g) White sugar","3 tablespoons (45 g) Melted butter or margarine","3½ teaspoons (14 g) Baking powder","2½ cups (350 g) White all-purpose flour","1¼ cups (310 g) Milk","½ teaspoon (3 g) Salt"],"ingredients_norm":["component","orange peel","white sugar","egg","butter or margarine","baking powder","white all purpose flour","milk","salt"],"steps":["Cover grated orange peel with water and boil for 5 minutes.","Drain and rinse, discarding water.","Barely cover with cold water (about ¼ cup).","Add ½ cup sugar and cook until peel is tender and water is cooked away; cool.","Preheat the oven to 350°F (~175°C).","Mix thoroughly egg, 1 cup sugar, melted butter, baking powder, all-purpose flour, milk, and salt.","Add cooled peel to this mixture and mix well.","Pour into greased and floured 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) pan.","Bake in the preheated oven for about 55–65 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry when inserted in the loaf."],"categories":["Recipes for dessert","Christmas recipes","Baking recipes","Family heritage recipes","Recipes for cake","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using butter","Recipes using orange","Recipes using egg","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using margarine","Recipes using milk"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":180,"servings":"Varies","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Orange_Bread","source_ref":"4587334","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Orange_Bread&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"83870aaef42ba3f70ff65ac458d75c4bc87d9e77aa0c53c0901000d890acc9cf","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:12Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/orange-bread"}