Autumn makes everything pumpkin, Hallowe’en doubly so… This year, I perfected a Quick Pumpkin Bread technique thanks to canned organic steamed pumpkin puree. This stuff is 100% pure pumpkin, and while it cuts out the joys of cooking pumpkin bread from scratch, it also makes it a lot easier to bake pumpkin bread and still have time to make pumpkin soup.
Here’s my recipe for extremely delicious pumpkin bread in under 10 minutes (plus baking time)
You will need:
5 cups flour
4 cups baker’s sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons salt
15 oz canned pumpkin
3 sticks unsalted butter, cubed
1 1/4 cups cold water
6 eggs, beaten
Set the oven to 325 degrees, and oil four regular loaf pans.
Sieve the flour and sugar into a large mixing bowl, then add the other dry ingredients. Add the pumpkin and mix well. In a pan, melt the butter over a medium heat, then add to the bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon, adding the water and then the eggs. Work quickly – the mixture doesn’t need to be mixed very thoroughly. If there are lumps, don’t worry. Pour the batter evenly between the four pans and bake for 1 hout and 20 minutes. Insert a toothpick, and if it doesn’t come out totally clean, bake the bread for another 10 minutes. Leave in the pans to cool, or eat it hot.
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hi,
i’ve been looking at a lot of pumpkin bread recipes lately, and they all seem to call for canned pumpkin. I followed a link here from homegrown evolution, and was hoping that your recipe would be the exception. i don’t suppose you’ve ever made it with fresh pumpkin?
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Posted by melissa on 18th November 2008 at 7:16 am | Permalink
Hi Melissa,
I haven’t… but, I am 100% certain you could use this recipe and switch out the canned pumpkin for fresh. I agree with you, in principle I probably shouldn’t have included this recipe on OrganicFoodee, because canned organic pumpkin is so much more wasteful than fresh organic steamed pumpkin. But…. I am a conflicted city-dwelling OrganicFoodee, and I’m certain many of the readers are the same way. Sometimes, the choice really is between no pumpkin bread, organic pumpkin bread with shortcuts, or non-organic pumpkin bread from the store. So I chose to highlight a convenience product that is nutritionally good, although a little on the wasteful side in terms of the can.
Posted by Ysanne on 3rd December 2008 at 11:03 pm | Permalink