My 122nd experiment: Cranberry orange nut bread

This is specially for the festival season at the end of the year. I love the combination of cranberry and orange in this bread.

Recipe: Cranberry orange nut bread (make 1 large loaf)

Ingredients:
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1+1/2 tp baking powder
- 1/2 tp baking soda
- 3/4 tp kosher salt
- 3/4 cup (one 6 oz package) orange juice
- 1/4 tp grained orange peels
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 large egg + white of 1 egg
- 3 TB vegetable oil
- 1 cup frozen cranberries, chopped
- a handful of chopped walnuts

Procedure:
1. Sieve together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, orange peel.
2. In a large bowl, beat together egg, egg white (if used), sour cream, oil, orange juice and sugar until it becomes well blended.
3. Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients in three batches. Thoroughly mix each batch before adding the next.
4. Add chopped cranberries and nuts.
5. Pour into greased 9x5 pan. Bake at 350F for 40-50 minutes until internal temperature is 190F and toothpick comes out clean.

Results:
3:37pm, frozen fresh cranberries bought just last week:

3:38pm, halved berries:

3:50pm, all ingredients:

4:10pm, wet ingredients:

4:13pm, wet ingredients to beat:

4:14pm, wet ingredients beaten; because of its thinness, the batter flies all over the place when beaten with electric mixer:

4:16pm, batter beaten, ready to mix with dry ingredients:

4:21pm, batter fully mixed with dry ingredients:

4:21pm, batter height in bowl:

4:22pm, berries and nuts added to batter:

4:24pm, batter in pan:

4:24pm, batter height in pan:

4:24pm, batter to bake at 350F:

5:13pm, loaf baked 50 minutes:

5:20pm, loaf's top when baked 55 minutes:

5:20pm, loaf's corner in pan:

5:21pm, internal temperature reaching 190F:

5:21pm, thermometer coming out clean:

5:21pm, loaf's height just out of oven:

5:48pm, loaf's height when cooled:

5:49pm, loaf's top in pan when cooling:

5:49pm, loaf turned out:

5:49pm, loaf's bottom:

5:49pm, loaf's side:

5:50pm, loaf's heel:

5:50pm, loaf's corner:

5:53pm, all of today's Thanksgiving gifts; comparing the height of cranberry loaf with the heights of calabasa loaves:

Observations:
1. The wet ingredients in this recipe are so watery that it becomes really hard to use the electric mixer. It sends the liquid all over the place!
2. This loaf has more batter than the large loaf of calabasa bread. However, this loaf does not hold its risen height after coming out of the oven.