Fruit, Nuts and Scone Like Bread... Mmmm

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Fruit, Nuts and Scone Like Bread... Mmmm
Fruit, Nuts and Scone Like Bread... Mmmm

Mixed Dried Fruit, Walnut, Pumpkin seed Butter, White Chocolate Irish Soda Bread.

Ironically, close to St. Patrick's Day, but not because of it, I craved something large, fruity, nutty and with a HUGE crisp crust. I found a basic orange and chocolate Irish soda bread recipe and perked it up.
Mixed dried fruit included: dried cherries, apricots, saltanas, thompson raisins, figs and currants.
I used the pumpkin seed butter again (to bring out more nuttiness) instead of butter, aka the high fat dairy, and threw in toasted walnut pieces.
For a slight sweet balance, I used some white chocolate from Bernard Callebaut, but other than the fruit sugar, there were no other sugar additives.
Instead of buttermilk, I used plain yogurt (because I had this gorgeous thick organic stuff in the fridge that had to be used up).
I ended up with a crusty crisp fruit-nut bread that was very scone like and almost 1kg in weight!
Perhaps, if I get to the stage of having leftovers, I might experiment by slicing some biscotti size slices and baking them to make them biscotti! In the meantime, it's scrumptious with tea and slatherings of fig or apricot preserves. I should try clotted cream (since the texture is almost like a fruit and nut scone), but we don't get that here in Canada. :P

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Taken on: March 13, 2006
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