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Mary’s Zucchini Bread Recipe

After grating the nutmeg, continue with this:

Mary's Zucchini Bread Recipe
Mary’s Zucchini Bread Recipe

To end up with this:

Zucchini bread - minus QC sample
Zucchini bread – minus QC sample

Mary omits the cloves.

Applesauce is completely optional. Should you prefer a softer & sweeter loaf, give it a try.

Conversely, reduce the sugar by about half if you’ve accustomed yourself to a keto-oid diet; the raisins carry enough sweetness for us. You can use brown sugar if you like.

She derived it from the Garden Way’s Zucchini Cookbook by Ralston & Jordan (© 1977):

Zucchini Bread Recipe - Garden Way Zucchini Cookbook
Zucchini Bread Recipe – Garden Way Zucchini Cookbook

Obviously, cooking is not an exact science; a recipe is just where you start …

Algorithmic pricing / money laundering is a thing:

Garden Way Zucchini Cookbook - Amazon listing
Garden Way Zucchini Cookbook – Amazon listing

Ya can’t make this stuff up …

Comments

7 responses to “Mary’s Zucchini Bread Recipe”

  1. Trudi Avatar
    Trudi

    a recipe is just where you start …

    Indeed it is but you have far more leeway when you are making soup than when you are baking. Baking is chemistry and wandering too far from recipe proportions will produce a flat cookie rather than a lofty loaf. Voice of experience.

    1. Ed Avatar

      Doubling the baking powder definitely helps boost the applesauce version!

      Ya gotta make one “original” before carefully exploring the surrounding solution space …

  2. RCPete Avatar
    RCPete

    I’ve read that some of the outrageous prices are when a vendor doesn’t have the item in stock, but wants to keep the listing open for when they actually do have it.

    OTOH, some vendors seem to specialize in slightly obscure or out-of-print books at absurd prices. I’m trying to keep my reading purchases limited to eBook versions with a hard limit of $11 for an eBook, and lots of resistance above $7 (note to self, time to update the Kindle-for-PC backup stash). Can’t say I’m thrilled with the file obscuring/encryption though.

    1. Ed Avatar

      And, should someone buy it, the seller can afford next-day shipping from whoever has a copy.

      There’s a sucker born every minute, so I’m told, but that victim would have soaked up all the sucker-hood for a day in both directions …

  3. Epson Avatar
    Epson

    Was Mary’s recipe printed on a dot matrix printer? It has that old-school (retro-cool?) look to it that I remember from my essay-writing college days…

    1. Ed Avatar

      That’s exactly how long ago we printed it! [grin]

  4. marysveggiegarden Avatar

    I do use the half cup sugar and the cloves. Adding a tablespoon of maple syrup makes it extra special.