pumpkin bread

Here is another recipe from the Kansan`s Silver Spoon cookbook of 1967. This bread is very very good.

Pumpkin bread
Mrs. Tom Selby

2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1teaspoon nutmeg
2/3 cup water
2 cups pumpkin ( I used 1 can of pumpkin)
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoon soda
1 cup nutmeats, if desired
Mix all ingredients together thouroughly. Bake in 4 greased one pound coffee cans. Fill each can 2/3 full or 1/2 full. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.


*I know hard to find metal coffee cans, I used just loaf pans and worked just fine, It takes 2 loaf pans. This bread recipe dough tatse like pumpkin pie to me ,,yum,yum yum good.