Zuccini Bread

Paula Dean Zuccini Bread Recipe

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/zucchini-bread-recipe/index.html

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and fold in. Bake in 2 standard loaf pans, sprayed with nonstick spray, for 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Alternately, bake in 5 mini loaf pans for about 45 minutes

Fruit Crisp

Place a mixture of fruit in bottom of baking dish with deep sides.
Pour white sugar over mixture - just enough to lightly cover fruit (or as much as you desire as this is the step that will make the crisp sweet or tart.)
Let sit 30-60 minutes, then add oatmeal mixture below:


Mix together in bowl:
1/2 C oats
1/2 C Brown Sugar
1/4 C flour
1/4 C softened butter
dash of cinnamon

place spoonfuls of mixture over the top of fruit mixture.

Bake at 400* for about 30 minutes (until fruit is bubbly and oatmeal mixture is slightly browned
Let sit to cool slightly. 
Eat alone or topped with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, or pour on a bit of milk.