Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Bread. Every time carving pumpkins at Halloween, you must be confused with what you have to do with the content being removed from the skin of the pumpkin? Pumpkin Bread is an easy way to use up the remaining pumpkin or winter squash in this regard. Recipe calls for a cup of pumpkin puree that you can get from a can, or make your own by steaming or grilling pieces of pumpkin, scoop out the flesh, and both mashing with a fork or blending in a food processor.

If you use canned pumpkin puree of potatoes you might get a stronger sense than using a pumpkin Halloween pumpkin. Jack-o-lantern pumpkins are raised for their durability more than their taste. But if you have a sugar pumpkin, butternut squash, pumpkin or Japanese kabocha, they cook delicious. Spices make a quick bread is quite tasty, and squash helps keep it moist delicious bread. This is much like a pumpkin version of banana bread. Tasty and easy to make.

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Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups (210g) flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup (200 g) sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup (240 ml) pumpkin purée*
• 1/2 cup (120 ml) olive oil
• 2 eggs, beaten 
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 cup (120 ml) chopped walnuts

It's So Nice

* To make pumpkin purée, cut a pumpkin in half, scoop out the seeds and stringy stuff, lie face down on a foil or Silpat lined baking sheet. Bake at 350°F until soft, about 45 min to an hour. Cool, scoop out the flesh. Freeze whatever you don't use for future use. Or, if you are working with pumpkin pieces, roast or boil them until tender, then remove and discard the skin.

Directions 

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Sift together the flour, salt, sugar, and baking soda.
   Mix the pumpkin, oil, eggs, 1/4 cup of water, and spices together, then combine with the dry ingredients, but do not mix too thoroughly. Stir in the nuts.
2. Pour into a well-buttered 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake 50-60 minutes until a thin skewer poked in the very center of the loaf comes out clean.
3. Turn out of the pan and let cool on a rack.

*Can easily double the recipe.

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