Old-Fashioned Comfort Foods
Find easy to make quick bread recipes including sweet breads like banana, cranberry, and apple along with savory breads like cheddar and cornbread.
This recipe for homemade apple nut bread is made with apples, sour cream, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and chopped pecans. Fill the house with the wonderful aroma of this fresh apple nut bread baking in the oven. Everyone in your household will be waiting for it to come out of the oven and cool down enough …
This cheddar cheese bread is made with buttermilk baking mix, crumbled bacon, and shredded cheddar cheese. This recipe is from my mom’s recipe collection. You can eat this bread either warm or at room temperature with softened butter. When I made this quick bread, I was unsure of what to expect since most quick breads …
Popovers are an easy quick bread made with milk, flour, eggs, and vegetable oil. They turn out light, fluffy, airy, and golden brown. Load them with butter and serve them for breakfast or brunch. Oh my! Popovers are one of my favorite breakfast treats. If this is your first time making them you are in …
A homemade cranberry bread recipe made with fresh cranberries, orange juice, and chopped nuts. Serve for breakfast, brunch, or a holiday dessert. This cranberry bread is full of flavor because of the fresh orange juice and grated orange rind. Sweet-tart cranberries make a delicious quick bread to serve for breakfast, brunch, part of a special …
A moist homemade apple bread recipe made with chopped apples, sugar, butter, and chopped walnuts. Serve for breakfast, brunch or dessert. A touch of sour cream and chunks of delicious fall apples makes this bread moist and delicious. I will have to say that this certainly reminds me of fall and I personally like it …
A quick and easy banana bread recipe made with mashed bananas, eggs, milk, and butter. Serve this tasty banana bread for breakfast, brunch, a light snack, or dessert. This bread has less sugar than some recipes. That way the flavor of the bananas can come through. Serve this dessert bread warm with a pat of …
This glazed lemon bread is special because it uses the juice and zest of a whole lemon, making the lemon flavor shine through. It is made with butter, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, lemon juice, milk and chopped pecans (optional). The lemon glaze is applied warm and soaks in to the bread to make this quick …
A homemade banana bread recipe made with those leftover bananas that would otherwise be thrown away. This simple recipe uses pecans or walnuts for added flavor. In the summertime, fruit can go bad quicker than expected. With food costing more and more, this is an easy recipe to use up over-ripe bananas and avoid tossing …
A favorite banana bread recipe from my grandmother made with ripe bananas, butter, sugar, eggs, and nuts. Serve this quick bread with butter or cream cheese spread for breakfast, brunch, a mid-day snack, or dessert. This banana bread recipe has a light, delicate crumb and has quite a bit of banana flavor because you use …
Country fresh cranberry bread is a quick and easy recipe made with plump fresh cranberries, sugar, egg, the juice of an orange and finely ground pecans. Serve this quick bread for breakfast or brunch. This sweet bread can be served warm or cold and with or without real butter. Sweet cream cheese or cream cheese …
A pumpkin raisin bread recipe made with pumpkin and flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, raisins and walnuts. Serve for brunch, dessert, or a snack. What says fall better than pumpkin and the spices like ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg that go with it? This is a nice treat for any occasion like a fall brunch, Thanksgiving, …
A moist banana buttermilk nut bread recipe made with sugar, eggs, bananas, chopped nuts, and fresh buttermilk. This easy banana bread recipe is special because the buttermilk inside makes a very moist delicious bread. Baking a quick bread is one of my favorite things, as the heady aroma fills the kitchen and will surely get …
A homemade buttermilk cornbread recipe made with corn meal, eggs, flour, buttermilk, and butter. Cornbread is just one of those foods that makes you think of the crisp and chilly days of fall. However, so many recipes I have tried turn out on the dry side and seem to lack flavor. This recipe is special …
Old-Fashioned pumpkin nut bread is made with canned pumpkin, cinnamon, sugar, milk, egg, butter, and chopped nuts. Serve this easy quick bread for a fall breakfast or brunch. Warm your kitchen with the aromas of cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin. It is a moist dessert bread that can be a wonderful treat for your children, friends, …
An old-fashioned strawberry bread recipe made with mashed fresh strawberries, a touch of cinnamon and topped with a vanilla powdered sugar glaze. What a great way to use up fresh strawberries that might have become a bit too ripe for other recipes! You mash the berries and incorporate them into the batter so you get …
An old-fashioned date bread recipe made with butter, eggs, pecans, and chopped dates and baked in a loaf pan. Serve this quick bread for breakfast, brunch, or as a dessert. I happen to love dates. They are sweet, chewy, and nutty. This recipe is from my mom’s recipe box collection and I still make it …
An old-fashioned butterscotch bread recipe made with brown sugar, golden raisins, and buttermilk. Serve this quick bread recipe for a sweet treat at breakfast or brunch. This is an interesting recipe not often found in many cookbooks. I believe this one came from my Grandmother’s recipe box. When I first read the recipe, I doubted …
This buttermilk banana bread recipe is made from butter, sugar, eggs, and bananas. Fresh buttermilk in the batter makes a moist and delicious bread. Having a few leftover bananas around seems to be a common occurrence in our household, so this is a recipe that frequently gets brought out as a way to use up …
Cranberry orange bread is made with dried sweetened cranberries, orange juice, egg, and walnuts. This quick bread is a great combination of sweet and tart and can be served for breakfast, brunch, an afternoon snack or with tea. This is a recipe from my mom’s recipe collection and has been around for many years. One …
