Sift: 2 cups flour (sifted), 1 cup sugar, 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp baking soda.

Cut in 1/4 cup butter until mixture is crumbly (I use a mixer to crumble-ize it)

Add 1 beaten egg, 1 tsp grated orange peel and 3/4 cup organge juice and mix until mixture is evenly moist.

Fold in 1 and 1/2 cups light raisins and about a half bag of chopped cranberries per loaf.

Spoon into a greased 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan bake at 350' for 1 hour and 10 mins or until toothpick in center comes out clean.

Cool out of pan on a wire rack. keep stored in aluminum foil, unless you eat it all before it cools.

If it doesn't come out well the first time, that is OK; it took Mrs. Claus 3 or 4 attempts before she learned to make it consistently excellent.

Perfect for Christmas and Thanksgiving I find it easier to double the recipe and make two loaves at once since we have so many elves to feed (not to mention Santa himself).

Original recipe from the book Cranberry Thanksgiving

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