Black Sesame Breakfast Bread

So like all y'all, I'm trying to eat less sugar, refined grains, and processed food. But sometimes you've just got to say "Whatever! Time for a quick bread!" Like if you've got a little kid that you're teaching to cook! This bread is great for that! It's super-fun to mix in each of the ingredients and watch the different ways that they behave: stirring in the eggs till their yolks break, watching the oil pool on top of everything until it's stirred in, and all throughout the little black dots of the sesame seeds. The batter is also very tasty, though if you get salmonella it wasn't me who told you to lick the spoon.

If this recipe looks suspiciously familiar to you, it's because it started out life as a poppyseed bread recipe. You know what I couldn't find cheaply at stores here? Poppyseeds! You know what I had on hand? Black sesame seeds! And my goodness, it changes the whole character of the bread. I made a few other changes to the sugar and the flour as well - the result is a bread that's mildly sweet and robustly flavorful. I don't post recipes unless I think they're unusually delicious or unusually useful or both. So seriously, try this bread. Play dates with your grandkids will never be the same.

Ingredients: 

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup oil (use a light-tasting oil. Peanut would work too, with the nuttiness of the bread.)
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 tsp almond extract (I have eliminated this on occasion)
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp black sesame seeds
• 1 1/2 cups milk

Instructions
Combine sugar, oil, eggs, and extracts, and beat until smooth. Stir in the sesame seeds.

Add the dry ingredients (flours and baking powder) alternately with the milk. I usually do this in three sets - flour then milk.

Grease two bread pans (these are the 8x4 ones) and divide the batter evenly between them. Bake in a 350 oven for about an hour.

If you want to get extra fancy, take 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar. Mix it with just enough lemon juice or orange juice to make a paste slightly thinner than toothpaste. Frost the top of your bread with this. Let your bread cool to room temperature before you try, otherwise it will run all over everywhere.

Price
Ugh, trying to price out a baked good! This is pretty cheap. The expensive stuff is the eggs and the milk. I don't have to tell you to buy the black sesame in an international supermarket, right? If you are still buying your spices from McCormick or whatever your standard grocery aisle brand is I will smack you and smack you. What is this, the 1600s? Spices do not turn the world economy and fuel colonial expansion, so stop paying if they did.