Delicious pumpkin bread
10 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Luke warm water |
| 2 | teaspoons | Sugar |
| 2 | Dry yeast | |
| ¼ | cup | Molasses |
| ¼ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Eggs; beaten | |
| 1 | cup | Warm water |
| ½ | cup | Melted shortening |
| 8 | cups | All-purpose flour |
| 1 | cup | Seedless raisins |
| 2 | teaspoons | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| 1 | teaspoon | Ginger |
| ½ | teaspoon | Nutmeg |
| 2 | cups | Pumpkin |
Directions
Recipe by: Carolyn Medeiros Preparation Time: 1:45 Put ½ cup lukewarm water in mixing bowl and add yeast. Sprinkle sugar over, let rise about 10 miutes. Stir well. Add ¼ cup sugar, molasses, spices, salt and pumpkin.
Add beaten eggs, mix well, then beat in melted shortening and 4 cups flour.
Beat well. Add floured raisins and remaining 4 cups flour; knead well.
Put in a greased bowl, cover and let rise until double its size. Form into loaves and put into 2 greased loaf pans. After greasing loaves let rise again until double. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. Remove greased loaves at once.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #927 by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Nov 28, 1997