Cantaloupe Bread

The following is a recipe for cantaloupe bread that I made up the other day. There was this thing I read that was talking about melon bread, and it sounded like it would be pretty good, so I checked around a found a few places online with recipes for various types of melon bread, and they all seemed to follow a pretty standard formula, so I went back to Joy of Cooking and adapted their instructions for banana bread, instead using cantaloupe. It turned out pretty well. I'll probably try to tweak it some more later.

Block 1 Ingredients

• 1 ½ c. flour
• 1 c. sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt

Block 2 Ingredients

• 2 eggs, beaten
• 6 tblsp melted butter
• 1 c. cantaloupe purée
• ¼ – ½ tsp ground cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a 9″ x 5″ baking pan.
2. Sift or whisk together block 1 ingredients.
3. Mix block 2 ingredients.
4. Fold block 1 into block 2 until just moistened. Do not overmix.
5. Pour into loaf pan. Bake 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Pretty simple. The thing is not to add too much cinnamon; the flavor of the cantaloupe is easily overwhelmed.