Sunbread

I love books that have recipes in them. I think they are too cool because they combine my love of reading and cooking/baking into one!

Today Micah and I made sunbread, the recipe being on the back of this awesome children's book, SunBread by Elisa Kleven. It's a rainy day today, and gave us a perfect opportunity to still have some sun! (We even got a "sunburn" since we left it in the oven a bit too long... but the kids still snarfed it down.)

Peanut Butter Bread

This is a great quick bread. If I haven't started a normal wheat bread by 8 in the morning, I can still manage this for a yummy kids' lunch.

• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1-3/4 cup milk
• 2-1/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder

Cream together the peanut butter and sugar. Add the vanilla and salt and mix well. Now add half the milk and half the flour, and all of the baking powder. Mix very well. Add the remaining milk and flour, and mix again until the batter is nice and smooth. Turn the mixture into a well oiled 9 by 5-inch loaf pan, or two smaller loaf pans. Bake at 350° for about an hour, 45 minutes for smaller loaves. Remove from the oven, and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before removing from the pan.