Orange Bread

This is my sister Robin's favorite - another recipe from mom.

• 1 cup orange peel cut into ¼ to ½ inch strips
• 1 cup sugar
• 4  cups flour
• 6 tsp. baking powder
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1 TBS. butter
• ¾ cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups milk

Put orange peel in saucepan, add water to cover and boil till tender.  Add sugar and boil to medium syrup then cool.  Sift together dry ingredients.  Cream butter, ¾ cup sugar, eggs.  Add milk alternately with dry ingredients to creamed mixture.  Beat with mixer at medium speed for 4 minutes.  Remove from mixer and add cooled orange peel and syrup.  Beat by hand at least 1 minute until well mixed.  Put into 2 greased loaf pans. 


Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Cut slit lengthwise in top of loaf return to oven reduced to 300 degrees and bake another 20-25 minutes.