Betty Crocker's Heart Healthy Cookbook shares a recipe! Take a break from regular bread with this quick-to-make, fruity bread, featuring pears, rhubarb and walnuts.
Pear-Rhubarb Flaxseed Bread
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 1 hr 20 min
- Servings 24
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped rhubarb (about 1/2 pound)
- 1 1/2 cups chopped peeled or unpeeled pears (1 1/2 medium)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup canola or soybean oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups ground flaxseed or flaxseed meal
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Move oven rack to low position so that tops of pans will be in center of oven. Heat oven to 350°. Lightly spray bottoms only of 2 loaf pans, 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2 or 9x5x3 inches, with cooking spray.
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Step2Mix rhubarb, pears, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into pans.
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Step3Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely before slicing, about 1 hour. Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days or refrigerate up to 10 days.
Nutrition
190
Calories
8g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
25g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 190
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 4%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 35mg
- 12%
- Sodium
- 180mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 115mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 25g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 12%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 8%
- 8%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 1/2 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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