Apricot Tea Bread

Ingredients

• soy margarine or butter at room temperature
  1/2 cup
• granulated sugar
  3/4 cup
• eggs
  2 large
• to 3/4 cup low-fat vanilla soymilk
  1/2 unit
• orange extract
  1 tsp
• all-purpose flour
  2 cups
• salt
  1 tsp
• baking soda
  1 tsp
• baking powder
  2 tsp
• Tbs. orange zest
  1 unit
• pecans

  crushed
  1/2 cup
• dried apricots

  coarsely chopped
  1/2 cup
• fresh apricots

  pitted and halved
  2 to 3 unit
• orange juice

  optional
  1/4 cup
• granulated sugar

  optional
  1/2 cup