Favorite Pumpkin Bread Recipe

This pumpkin bread recipe is so scrumptious, moist, and has several nutrition benefits!



You can easily hide good ingredients like whole wheat flour in addition to or instead of all purpose, or you can add a little wheat germ or milled flax seeds.

Makes one 9" x 5" loaf

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Sift together:

1 3/4 Cup..........All-purpose flour

1/4 tsp .............Baking powder

1 tsp ................Baking soda

1 tsp ................Salt

1/2 tsp .............Cinnamon

1/4 tsp .............Ground cloves

In large bowl, beat until light and fluffy:

1 1/3 Cup .........Sugar

1/3 Cup ............Soft shortening (OR 1/2 cup Oil)

2 ......................Eggs

Add and beat in:

1 Cup ...............Canned or cooked pumpkin

Add the sifted dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with:

1/3 cup ............Water or milk

(optional 1/2 tsp vanilla)

Do not over-beat between each addition

Baking:

Pour batter into a greased pan and bake about 1 hour or until bread tests done.

Optional additions:

Pecans, walnuts... I've never tried berries, but that may taste good, too. :)

Remember, make it healthier. Use the following guidelines to help you choose healthier ingredients for your healthy pumpkin bread recipe and everything you make from scratch:

• Flour: Unbleached, replace some of the all purpose flour with white whole wheat or regular whole wheat. (Whole wheat flour should not be enriched and should have more grams of fiber than all purpose.)

• Salt: Sea salt (not table salt)

• Sugar: Unrefined (such as Turbinado, Organic cane, etc.)

• Baking Powder: Non-aluminum/Aluminum free

• Eggs: From free-range/cage-free chickens

• Shortening: Non-hyrdogenated, vegetable, no trans-fat

• Oil: Extra-virgin olive oil



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