Welcome Friends. It is Sunday morning so we're going to do another in our old
cookbook series and again today we're going to do the five roses flour and
this copy was published in 1932 now we've already done a recipe from
this page the peanut butter bread and a lot of people said I like the orange
honey bread right below it can you make that? so let's do it first off it says
the rind of two oranges now doesn't say what kind of oranges or how big the
oranges should be I know that when I was a kid oranges only showed up just around
Christmas time and it was probably the same in the 1930s if you got oranges at
all and they were probably navel oranges from Florida where we lived and if you
lived in Western Canada they would have been oranges from California so I
couldn't get navel oranges today I've got these I really like these Mineola
tangelos they're across between a tangerine and a grapefruit so
technically not an orange at all but I really like the flavor and they're
easier to peel than an orange so I'm gonna take the peel off and now a lot of
people will be worried about the pith I would say don't be worried about the
pith in this instance because we're going to cook this for a very long time
we're essentially going to make a marmalade out of the orange peel so peel
these up and you're supposed to put them into a food chopper but of course this
is 2019 not 1938 and I don't have the food chopper that they would have had
back in the day so I'm going to use this food processor and we're going to grind
up these peels now it's said to use a coarse cutter on the food grinder and I
think I've got it too kind of a point that is coarse so into a pot and for
those of you at home who get so upset when I make changes of substitutions
that's to changes in substitutions so far probably in the first minute and a
half of the video into this pot I'm going to put baking soda and then it
says to cover with water and cook for 30 minutes so I'm gonna bring this
up to just about a simmer not quite a boil and we'll let this go for 30
minutes okay now it says to drain and discard the water so I'm not really sure
why we're discarding the water it probably might be good for something but
at the same time it might be too bitter after we've taken the bitterness out of
the peel so Peter goes back into the pot pot comes back over to the heat we put
in a quarter cup of water and then one cup of honey now this is my cousin
Jill's honey and for some reason it ended up in the fridge so it's a little
bit hard well get a bit a cup out and we're gonna cook this until essentially
we've candied the peel somewhere between a marmalade and candied peel and I
suppose you could completely skip this step and just get candied orange peel
it's readily available at any baking store most grocery stores certainly I
know here the bulk barn has it to spare so same medium low heat melt the honey
in and just cook it until it's a fine syrup well the orange is cooking we're
going to take about a cup of milk and we're going to beat in one egg
now I'm going to take a little bit of the flour and I'm going to put that on
top of the pecans coat them with flour now this this is somewhere between truth
and an old wives tale that you always coat fruit and nuts before you put them
into a cake so that they don't sink I've sat down with several pastry chefs
who have shown me that that's not the case
but I'm gonna do it anyway because that's what is expected but if you don't
do it don't feel bad that you haven't done it it's not strictly necessary so
into this bowl I'm going to put flour baking powder and salt and I'm just
going to stir that together to get it well incorporated
the instructions say to sift it together everything now is pre sifted if you
still want to sift because you think it gives you a lighter more lofty cake go
right ahead I don't take that extra step and I know
that some people yell at me for that but I just don't think it's necessary today
okay I think we're ready to go now I've got some baking soda and I'm going to
dissolve that in a little bit of water just a tiny little bit the directions
are - in a few additions mix the milk and egg into the flour so stir that in
slowly making sure it's fully incorporated
last of the milk now we add in the orange peel and the orange peel is
cooled the kind of lukewarm just above room temperature so while we're mixing
this in I'm gonna put in the water with the baking soda at the same time just to
make sure we get it mixed in and you know what I'm gonna put the shortening
in at the same time and the last thing to go in are the nuts now I'm using
pecans but you could use pretty much any nut that you want I imagine it just says
nut meats so that leaves you open to walnuts and anything like that
now the shortening I actually used lard because I know at this time period where
we live anyway pure pork lard was more readily available than vegetable
shortening and it would have been cheaper than vegetable shortening and
since pure pork lard is still on every grocery shelf in Canada I decided to use
that instead of vegetable shortening now it says to put it into bread pans pans
plural and I'm not too sure about that I mean I think probably this is bigger
than a bread pan would have been in in the 1930s so I'm gonna start filling
this one up and see what happens one bread pan it is I'm gonna smooth at the
top and it says to leave it in a warm place for 20 minutes before baking and I
imagine that's for all of the baking soda and baking powder to activate and
give it a bit of loft before it goes into the oven so let's check back when
it's all cool and ready to go
max snacks snacks yes so this was a this was a request from our friends it is so
it's from the five roses flower cookbook okay it is the orange honey bread yes so
we we made the peanut butter bread on the same page and people saw the orange
honey bread and said you should do that so give it a try oh let the peanut
butter was really good
so the citrus is quite light yeah it's it's just a hint of citrus and it's not
very sweet so it's one of those quick breads that isn't terribly sweet I think
it I think the orange you could ramp up the orange a little bit maybe okay
context was a reminder oranges would have been super expensive and very
special at this time so I imagine it was a way to give everyone some orange well
and to use the orange rind mmm because you would have eaten the orange and the
oranges only would have come at that time just before Christmas mm-hmm so
this would have been very special if I was updating this there are a few things
that I would do well you couldn't grace the orange for sure I would probably
make a little bit sweeter
I would definitely make the orange peel sweeter when I was cooking it mm-hmm
understood but I think this is you know it's an interesting interesting bread
toast that up yeah and some butter mm-hmm I think I was just expecting
something a little bit sweeter along the lines of a banana bread and I knew that
based I knew that going into it when I looked at the recipe that it wasn't
going to be sweet like that so I was interested to find out what happens but
I would make it a little bit sweeter for my and I don't like sweet things but I
think I would but overall I think this is a great quick bread I bet you would
also really like it with marmalade on it yeah yeah that was really Lamar Miller
or even a carrot marmalade it would go really well yeah so thanks for stopping
by so you can soon
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