Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Add egg and orange juice all at once. Stir until evenly moist. Fold in raisins, cranberries, and nuts. Spoon into a greased loaf pan. Bake at 350^ for 1 hour, 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool an rack.
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Pumpkin Cookies

These soft, cake-like cookies always dissappear when I take them to church; events for the college ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ that we work with; or just for home. I nearly always quadrupel the batch. (I guess that's pretty normal when you have 9 kids!)

Combine dry ingredients (I use a large whisk instead of sifting). In a separate bowl, cream with an electric mixer butter and sugar until fluffy. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla, mix well (should also be somewhat fluffy). Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and mix until thuroughly moistened. Drop onto a BUTTERED cookie sheet by teaspoonfuls, and bake about 15 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Enjoy!

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MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) Granola

This is an easy to make and easy to eat granola, it's not that hard stuff you buy at the grocery store. It can be flavored different ways depending on your preference.

Mix oats and cinnamon in a large bowl. Melt margarine and stir in sugar. Bring to a boil, boil together stiring for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Pour syrup onto oats and stir until moistened. Put into a 9x13 cake pan. Bake 200^ - 250^ for 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes until dry.

Options:
Add nuts, coconut, wheat germ, oat bran before baking.
Add raisins, other dried fruit after baking.

Other flavors:
Add extracts (we like almond, and use about 1 T.) to syrup after it has been removed from heat.
Chocolate flavor: add 1/4 - 1/3 c. baking cocoa to sugar before adding to margarine, OR stir into oats like the cinnamon was.

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Zucchini Bread

Mix lightly: eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and zucchini. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients (except the nuts).
I stir the dry ingredients with a whisk instead of sifting them. Add dry to wet mixture, stir until smooth. Stir in nuts.
Pour into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake at 325^ for 1 hour. Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick into center top, if toothpick comes out clean, its done.
Freezes nicely.

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Beef Dip
(my kids favorite)

Combine cream cheese, tomatoes and dried beef in a food processor or blender.
(I f you don't have one of these, place the beef on a plate of cutting board, and shred with a fork first, then combine with a mixer). If using a blender or food processor, transfer dip to a bowl, stir in chopped onions, reserving some for garnish. Refrigerate for