Women Cookie Recipes

Our melt-in-your-mouth quick bread is a trove of female-friendly essential minerals, including 22 percent of the magnesium and 16 percent of the iron that women need daily. Magnesium helps ease muscle cramps and protects against migraines, while iron prevents fatigue.

1 cup prune or other fruit juice
1/2 cup unprocessed wheat bran
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1/3 cup dried currants
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 2/3 cup ground flaxseed
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Heat oven to 350°F. In a bowl, stir together juice, bran, sugar, currants, eggs and oil; let stand 10 minutes. In another bowl, sift together flour, flaxseed, baking powder and 114 teaspoon salt. Stir into bran mixture just until combined. Do not overmix. Pour into an 8 1/2-by-4 /12-by-2 3/4-inch greased loaf pan. Bake in lower third of oven 45 to 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes; remove from pan and let cool completely on rack.

Makes 8 servings.

NUTRITIONAL VALUE PER SERVING:
223 calories
34 g carbohydrate
8 g fat
6 g protein
6 g fiber