Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin bread has a delicious history in North America that dates back to colonial times. Native Americans and European settlers each brought some of their ingredients and ways of cultivating pumpkins together to collaborate on a pumpkin bread recipe that included cornmeal and spices. Over the course of the 20th century, pumpkin bread recipes advanced to have less of a bread texture and more of a cake-like crumb.
Directions
Recipe Ingredients
- 1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose or whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts
- 1/2 cup raisins, if desired
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
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