Celebrate the Fall: Pumpkin Bread

In our house, nothing says happy fall quite like fresh-baked pumpkin bread.  Here is an easy and very tasty recipe.  Enjoy it for breakfast while sipping coffee and watching the last of the leaves fall outside.

Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread*

Ingredients

*  1 (15 oz) can pumpkin puree
*  4 eggs
*  1 cup vegetable oil
*  2/3 cup water
*  3 cups white sugar
*  3.5 cups all-purpose flour
*  2 ts baking soda
*  1.5 ts salt
*  1 ts ground cinnamon
*  1 ts ground nutmeg
*  1/2 ts ground cloves
*  1/4 ts ground ginger

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  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.

*{Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread recipe found on allrecipes.com}