Tang Loaf with Apples, Walnuts and Raisins

This cake is from one of the cookbooks I own.I hadn't looked into this book in years and as I was tidying up my itsty bitsy shelf in my kitchen dedicated to cookbooks, I started going through it and found this recipe.The original recipe had orange juice which I did not have and I searched my pantry and found I had a can of tang that I substituted with and the fruits in it were apricots and apples with orange peel.

This is the the original recipe.I have added my substitutions in brackets.

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder (I added baking soda)
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup sunflower or low-fat margarine (I added butter)
1 cup light brown sugar (I added 3 tbsp sugar with the brown sugar)
Juice of 1 Orange (Made one cup tang as per instructions on box and added that)
2 large eggs lightly beaten
rind,grated and juice of one Orange (Used 1 cup Tang)
1/2 cup walnuts chopped
1/3 cup dried apricots chopped (used 1 tbsp raisins)
1 large cooking apple (used 1 small red apple)
oil for greasing (I used oil spray with flour)

Method:
Preheat Oven to 350 deg F.
Grease a 2 pound loaf pan and line the bottom with wax paper .(I lined my loaf pan with Aluminium foil and sprayed with oil spray)

Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
Add the margarine,sugar,eggs,orange rind and juice.(Instead of orange rind and juice I added tang)

Stir ,then beat with an electric beater till smooth.(I stirred and beat with a wooden ladle)

Stir in the walnuts, apricots(I used raisins).
Quarter ,core and peel the apple.Chop coarsely and add to the mixture.



Stir and spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and level the top.

Bake approximately 30 mins till you poke with a knife ad it comes our clean.My book did not have the exact time.So I kept checking every 5 mins.I baked for 30 mins and then switched off the oven and kept for a while.



Needless to say, the substitutions all worked and I love the end product.My son lapped it all up and said me-me (Yummy) :)