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Here
is a delicious Cranberry Bread for you to try. This Cranberry Orange Bread pairs the
tartness of fresh cranberries with the sweet citrus flavor of freshly
squeezed
orange juice. Besides its wonderful flavor, this Cranberry Orange Bread is lower in fat
than most, as it uses only 4 tablespoons (57 grams) of butter and replaces the more
commonly used
milk with orange juice. I adapted this recipe from Jean Anderson's 'The
American Century Cookbook' where she tells us that this recipe was
developed by Ocean Spray around the middle of the 20th century.
For a little trivia; Ocean Spray began in 1930 and
was formed by three cranberry growers who wanted to expand the market for
their product (cranberries). Together, this cooperative did just that;
first with the introduction in 1930 of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
Cocktail, and again in 1963 with the introduction of the first fruit juice
blend, Cranberry-Apple Juice Drink. They have had many successes since, one
being sweetened dried cranberries that were introduced in the early 1990s.
Cranberries are a
small, hard, smooth-skinned, round to oval-shaped, bright red berry that
is native to North America. It is also known by the names craneberry, bounceberry, bearberry, cowberry, or lingonberry. The
American Indians used the cranberry as both a food and a medicine. Sailors as well as settlers traveling westward
were known to have used cranberries as a way to ward off scurvy. Today
we know that cranberries are high in Vitamin C and are also used as an
antioxidant.
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