To begin making Oats, Cranberry and Walnut Bread preheat oven to 180 C and line a standard 9×5 loaf tin and grease with butter and dust with flour
If using dried cranberries, soak them in 1/2 cup of water with 1 tablespoon sugar for 20 minutes. Strain any extra liquid and keep aside.
Meanwhile stir in vinegar to milk and let it stand for 5 minutes.
Pulse instant oats in a food processor to get a coarse powder (not to make it fine).
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
In another medium bowl beat together egg (or flax egg) lightly, add milk and vinegar mixture, melted butter, orange zest and stir together.
Pour in the egg mixture to the flour mixture. Stir together all the ingredients just until the bread batter is combined -don’t over mix the batter.
Fold in the chopped walnuts and cranberries into the above bread batter. Transfer the batter to the greased loaf tin and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.Once the bread is baked, remove from the oven and allow it to cool completely.
Serve the Oats, Cranberry And Walnut Bread as a tea time snack along with masala chai.