Pear Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 jumbo eggs room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp nutmeg
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt
• 3 cups diced pears (four medium pears)
• 2/3 cup orange marmalade
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F

Cut butter in chunks

Let eggs stand in room temperature

Grease and flour pans

In medium bowl combine flour, power, soda, salt, nutmeg

In large bowl with electric mixer cream butter and sugar.  Beat in egg and vanilla

Add flour mixture to butter sugar mixture.  Add yogurt and marmalade.  Mix well.

Add pears and chocolate chips.  Stir until combined.  Pour into prepared pans.

Bake 45 min for mini-loafs, 70-75 min for glass loaf.

Cool in pan 10 min, then turn out of pan onto rack to complete cooling

Makes 2 8x4-1/2 loaves or 3 mini-loaves plus 1 8x4-1/2 loaf