My Favorite Sodabread

I'm not much of a baker, but I do enjoy quick and easy breads. I also enjoy playing around with recipe ingredients to try to make them healthier. This sodabread is based on a combination of recipes from The Joy of Cooking and an American Heart Association cookbook, with a few twists of my own. It's very easy, and perfect for a weekend morning when you have a little time to wait for your breakfast to cook.


Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/4 cups white flour
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1 T caraway seeds
1/2 cup butter or margarine (I like to use either real butter or canola oil margarine)
1 1/4 cups plain non-fat yogurt
1 T orange flavoring (optional)
1/3 cup dried cranberries

1. Preheat oven to 350F and spray a pie pan with cooking spray.
2. Mix together the first six ingredients.
3. Cut in the butter with your fingers or a pastry cutter until the mixture is the consistency of cornmeal.
4. Stir in the yogurt and orange flavoring (if using) until it is all a solid blob.
5. Stir in the cranberries so that they are more or less evenly dispersed.
6. Shape into a lump on the prepared pan. Cut an "X" into the top with a knife. Bake 40-50 minutes, until a knife comes out clean. The inside will still seem moist because of the yogurt, but it should be fully cooked.