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There is a story behind this bread. My German grandmother always used to make Schnitzbrote every Christmas, but the Schnitzbrote that she made was the real German yeast bread. It is a very dark heavy yeast bread. I loved it but I was the only one in the family that did so I got all the bread that she sent to the family. Wrapped in foil it would keep for months in the refrigerator. Grandma, being very old school never wrote down a recipe so hers was lost forever. Years later, when recipes became available on the internet I tried every one that I could find. I've never had so many back-to-back failures in my life. One batch came out so hard that we thought about keeping them for self-defense in case someone broke in the house we could beat them to death with the loaves. Not one to give up easily, I decided to incorporate the flavors in a quick bread and this is the recipe that I developed. It has quickly become my favorite quick bread.