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Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 C.).
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Spray the 2 loaf pans or muffin pans with a vegetable spray (or you can use the paper cup cake liners for the muffin pans).
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Mix together, with a whisk the first 5 ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
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In a separate bowl mix the flour and spices together with a fork,and the nuts if you are adding nuts.
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Then add the flour mixture slowly to the liquid ingredients and whisk them all together.
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Pour the mixture into the loaf pans or fill each muffin pan cup about 2/3 full.
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Bake the loaves for about 50 to 60 minutes and the muffins for about 30 minutes.
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Take out the pans and cool for about 10 minutes on a cooling rack then turn them out on the cooling rack to finish cooling.
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On the loaves, some people leave them in the pans and serve the bread out of the loaf pans.
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Note: They are better the second day, they get more moist as they set.
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Note: If you want to use All Purpose Flour, then to the 3-1/3 cups (775 ml) of All Purpose flour add, 2 tsp (10 ml).
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Baking Soda, 1 tsp (5 ml).
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of Salt and 1 tsp (5 ml).
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of Baking Powder.
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Note: I also have used Milk in the place of the Water, so to each their own.