I had picked a bunch of small ripe peaches while on a quick visit home a couple of weeks ago, and was trying to figure out what to do with them once I was back in my small RV kitchen with a stove prone to hot spots. My next door neighbor had just gotten a large toaster oven, and had offered to let me use it for baking.

Well, I started looking for a quick bread recipe using peaches but there weren't any in my old shoe box! I took a recipe for zucchini bread and modified it for peaches, since I thought they would both be about the same moisture content.

Brought the finished product to Beege and she says to post it - so here goes:

Peach-Nut Bread

3 eggs - beaten until frothy, then add next 4 ingredients and beat smooth
2 cups sugar
1 c. oil
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond extract

Fold in:

2 c. chopped peaches (peeled, stoned and run thru processor, medium coarse chop)

Mix the following dry ingredients together in separate bowl, then stir into wet ingredients until well-blended:

3 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 to 1 c. chopped nuts (optional)

Grease and flour 2 loaf pans (9" size). Preheat Oven to 350. Bake for
1 hour. Remove from pans immediately and cool on rack. (You can use this recipe for 5 of the baby loaf pans if you want to give as little gifts, but the cooking time would be shortened - just check it, since I'm not sure how long it would be.)