Maraschino Cherry Nut Bread

Name: Maraschino Cherry Nut Bread
Total time: 85
Yield: 14
Ingredients: 1 cup white sugar; ¼ cup solid vegetable shortening; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour; 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder; 1 (8 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and juice reserved, divided; ½ cup chopped pecans

Recipe by CHenson from allrecipes.com

Dessert 1 Hr. 25 Mins.

Ingredients

14 servings

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1 cup white sugar
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¼ cup solid vegetable shortening
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2 eggs
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1 teaspoon salt

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1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
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1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
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1 (8 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and juice reserved, divided
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½ cup chopped pecans

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Combine sugar, shortening, eggs, and salt in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined.
Mix flour and baking powder together in a medium bowl. Add flour mixture to shortening mixture in 2 or 3 batches, alternating with maraschino cherry juice, mixing batter well after each addition.
Cut each cherry into 4 pieces; stir into batter with pecans. Spoon mixture into the prepared loaf pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen and invert loaf onto a wire rack. Let cool completely.