Pumpkin Bread Recipe ~ Grandma's Favorite

Copyright © 2009 Cherie Kuranko "InkSpot" All Rights Reserved.

Grandma's Pumpkin Bread recipe wasn't a big secret, but nobody ever come close to making it just like Grandma...perhaps you want to give it a try.

Pumpkin Bread Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves (Freshly grind whole cloves to a dust-like powder for best flavor)
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/3 cup Crisco shortening (You can also use the butter-flavored Crisco)
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup fresh, cooked pumpkin
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional, can leave out if you don't like nuts)
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup shredded carrot

Recipe Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit.
2. In a mixer bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, salt, ginger, baking soda and ground cloves. Set this aside for now.
3. In a large mixing bowl, beat together brown sugar and shortening until well blended; beat in eggs.
4. Add pumpkin and milk and mix well.
5. Add the flour mixture from your other bowl to the pumpkin, sugar mixture and blend well.
6. Stir in by hand the chopped nuts, raisins and shredded carrot.
7. Pour batter into a greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
8. Bake in 350 degree oven for about 55-60 minutes or until a wooden tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
9. Cool in the loaf pan for about 10 minutes.
10. Remove from pan onto a wire cooling rack.

You may serve the bread hot, but allow it to cool a bit before slicing it. To store it for later use, wrap the loaf in saran wrap when completely cool and place it in a freezer type zip-lock bag or use sealing bags to remove all air before freezing. You may freeze the Pumpkin Bread in a freezer bag if you desire.

Recipe makes 1 loaf.

You might like to try these other pumpkin recipes too:

Pumpkin Pickles

Pumpkin-Orange Jam

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin Seed Bird Treats

 Any or all of these recipes work great in gift baskets. Just choose a theme of jams, bird watching or homemade canned goodies for each person on your holidy gift list. For other gift basket ideas read Unique DIY Gift Baskets.

Copyright © 2009 Cherie Kuranko "InkSpot" All Rights Reserved.