Pumpkin Bread

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IT'S PUMPKIN SEASON!!! I love the holidays and nothing makes me feel more festive than smelling pumpkin bread in the oven. This is an old family recipe that I learned from one of my neighbors. I called her Grandma Peggy, but she really wasn't my grandma at all. She would bring over this bread every year around the holidays and I loved it. I wanted the recipe so badly so I could make it whenever I wanted, but I was way too shy to ask her. Finally, my mom asked her for the recipe. That year, we made soooo many loaves of this bread and even froze some. 

One time, when my dad tried to make us a batch of pumpkin bread, he REALLY messed up the recipe. I thought that my dad really knew how to cook and how to read recipes, buuuuuttt not this time. He was so excited, too, and doubled the recipe because he was really craving some pumpkin bread. He put all of the loaves in the oven and we were waiting for the whole hour to eat the fresh, hot bread that dad made for all of us. The bread came out of the oven looking........ not right. It smelt delicious, but it just looked ugly. We were all kind of nervous to try a piece of it, but we did anyways. It was awful. It taste very plain and not at all like I remember. We told my dad that it tasted bad and he got defensive over his baking skills. He tried it and immediately dumped all of the loaves in the trash. He was so upset after spending all of that time trying to make the perfect pumpkin bread for all of us and he remembered that he forgot the pumpkin. 

Just so you guys know, do not forget the pumpkin. 

Serving Size: 1/8 of a loaf or 1 muffin

  • Calories: 140
  • Protein: 3 g
  • Carbohydrate: 32 g
  • Sugar: 13 g
  • Fat: 1 g
  • Calories from Fat: 6%
  • Fiber: 4 g
  • Sodium: 203 mg

INGREDIENTS


  • 3 ½ cup flour

  • 3 cups white sugar

  • 2 tsp. Baking soda

  • 1 ½ tsp. Salt

  • 1 tsp. Cloves

  • 1 tsp. Cinnamon

  • 1 tsp. Nutmeg

  • 1 cup vegetable oil

  • 1 cup water

  • 1 small can pumpkin


INSTRUCTIONS


  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees 

  2. Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl

  3. Beat all 4 eggs into a medium sized bowl

  4. Add the vegetable oil and water into the bowl with the eggs and combine well

  5. Add the dry and wet ingredients together in the large bowl and combine 

  6. Add the small can of pumpkin to the batter and mix well

  7. Spray 3 loaf pan -or- line three muffin pans 

  8. Bake the loaves for 1 hour or bake the muffins for 25 minutes

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