Author: Susan Murray, www.awomancooksinasheville.com
Ingredients
1/2csugar
½cmilk
½ccanola oil
1egg
1 ½tspvanilla
2cflour
2tspbaking soda
½tspsalt
1 ½cdiced strawberries
2tbspflour
½cplus 2 tbsp fresh strawberry jam
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Spray a 9 x 5 loaf pan lightly with cooking spray and line the pan with parchment paper, leaving a bit hanging over the sides to help remove the loaf from the pan.
In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, milk, oil, egg, and vanilla.
In a smaller bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt.
Toss the diced strawberries in 2 tablespoons of flour.
Add the flour mixture to the liquids and stir until just mixed.
Fold in the strawberries.
Spread half of the batter in the prepared pan and top with ½ cup of jam. Use a spatula or knife to spread the jam evenly across the batter, leaving a ¼” edge all around.
Spread the remaining batter over the top of the jam.
Use a spoon to drop dollops of jam randomly on the top of the batter. Then put the tip of a knife into each blob of jam and draw the jam in swirls over the top.
Bake 60-65 minutes until done. Make sure you are testing the batter for doneness, not the jam!
Let cool for 15 minutes then carefully remove from the pan and cool completely before cutting into the loaf.