Cinnamon Swirl Bread

Day 38: As the phrase says, "...and now for something a little different." I've been cutting it pretty close to the wire insofar as making bread right before I run out lately, due to the fact that I'm so intensely involved in quilting that everything else has to take a back seat. I never seem to remember to start the sourdough sponge the night before, not until I get up in the morning and chide myself with, "Damn. I forgot to put the sourdough down again." I decided I'd revert to another of my old stand-bys, one which makes two loaves. It's called Cinnamon Swirl bread, and the recipe appears in the classic Better Homes and Gardens cookbook...you know the one. It has a red gingham/buffalo check cover, and no kitchen should be without a copy. I made my first loaves of plain white bread from the instructions in its pages, lo, some fifty years ago. I'm still using the same cookbook, despite its pages being stained and torn and sometimes falling out of the ring binder, despite the fact that I have a newer edition (hardbound and difficult to keep open to the proper page). So, sandwiched between two power outages, the cinnamon swirl bread came to fruition, stock for the next two weeks.