Sweet Cinnamon Quick Bread

**For the batter: 2 cups unbleached flour

3/4 cup sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup canola oil

2 egg whites -- plus

1 egg

2 teaspoons vanilla

**For the streusel: 2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons margarine -- from

corn oil -- softened

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9x5-inch loaf pan with nonstick vegetable cooking spray.

To make the batter: In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Add the buttermilk, oil, egg whites, egg and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 3 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

To make the streusel: In a small bowl, mix the sugar, cinnamon and margarine until crumbly. Sprinkle over the batter and swirl slightly with a knife to marble it through the batter. Bake for about 55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan on a wire rack, then remove from the pan to finish cooling.

Per slice 147 cals, 4.0 g fat, 24.5% cff, 14 mg chol, 311 mg sodium -vs- 148 cals, 4.5 g fat, 26.9% cff (mc)

Source: Healthy Cooking for People Who Don't Have Time to Cook, by Jeanne Jones (Rodale, $27.95)

Available on-line at < https://www.charleston.net/ > The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC: What's Cookin' Sunday, June 1, 1997. "How low can we go? As low(-fat) as you want ..." Posted by patHanneman on eat-lf