Orange Old Fashioned Bread & Bourbon Butter

Perhaps a cocktail on a plate, slathered in your favorite slippery bourbon butter?

You know you love a good Old Fashioned.

Orange Old Fashioned Bread

4 Tbs. butter, room temperature
1 large egg
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup candied orange peel, chopped
1 cup pecans, chopped

Bourbon Butter 

8 Tbs. (1 stick) butter
3 Tbs. Kentucky bourbon
zest of 1 orange

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together 4 Tbs. butter, egg, and sugar, Add the remaining ingredients, up through the pecans.
Grease one large bread pan or two smaller ones and fill with the bread batter – DO NOT OVERFILL.
Bake for about 40-45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Meanwhile, melt the remaining 8 Tbs. butter in a small saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in the bourbon and orange zest. Allow to cool to room temperature.

Slather the Bourbon Butter over the Orange Old Fashioned Bread.

 

And, it doesn’t even have to be 5 o’clock anywhere.