Bread - Pumpkin 'Maine Style'

By Kwasome

"Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, this bread improves with age, so plan to make it a
day ahead if possible."

Ingredients

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup water
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preparation

Step 1

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.
2 In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
3 Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.