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Pumpkin Bread: A Recipe for Comfort Food

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I love the traditions of the holidays, not only for the significance of the day and bringing family together, but also because of the food.  I associate each holiday with a particular comfort food that was always part of our meal on that day.  A traditional Chinese banquet to celebrate the Lunar New Year, my mom’s spinach and artichoke strata for Easter brunch, the array of cookies we always baked for friends and neighbors as Christmas gifts, and freshly baked croissants on Christmas morning.

 

Thanksgiving comfort foods are still turkey and pumpkin bread.  Whether we roasted or smoked the turkey, I’d always loiter around the kitchen watching my dad carve the turkey.  Not only was I always first in line for the delicious morsels but years later I realized it was how I learned to carve a turkey.
 
My mom’s pumpkin bread recipe was always made before our Thanksgiving meal. All ingredients were dumped in the KitchenAid mixer until churned to perfection and put in floured loaf pans.  The distinctive aroma of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves filled the house, making the baking time seem even longer as I waited for it to come out of the oven.
 
My mom’s pumpkin bread recipe remains my favorite.  This eggless recipe is easy enough for kids to make, moist, and always delicious. Through the years I’ve adapted the recipe, cutting down the sugar so the flavor of the pumpkin and spices shine through and always omitting dates and nuts that aren’t favorites in our house and were never added to the original recipe anyways.
 
This Thanksgiving I’m sharing the recipe for one of my favorite holiday comfort foods with you.  I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
 
Tech Savvy Mama’s Favorite Pumpkin Bread
 
Ingredients:
 

  • 3 cups of sugar
  • 5 cups of flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
  • ½ t cloves
  • 2 Cups raisins (or dates or a mix of both)
  • Canned pumpkin- either 1 large (1 lb, 12 oz) or 2 small (15 oz cans can) of pumpkin.  You can also use flesh from a sugar pumpkin.  
  • 3/4 Cup of oil 
Directions:
 
  • Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl
  • Grease and flour loaf pans or spray with PAM Baking for the same effect
  • Fill 4 large loaf pans half way with batter
  • Bake at 350 for 1 ½ hours or until done

Happy Thanksgiving!


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