pear bread

thursday, 19 february, 2009 15:00 MAT

you can substitute pears for the bananas in banana bread and it makes pretty good pear bread. it's not as pearie as banana bread is bananaie, but it's still yummie.

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Pumpkin Bread

This bread was super easy and turned out great. The raisins and walnuts are optional but the bread is sort of blah without them.

3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

1 can 16 oz pure pumpkin puree
1 cup vegetable oil
3 cups sugar
3 eggs

1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 1/4 cup green pumpkin seeds for decoration

Mix sugar with vegetable oil in a large bowl. Mix in pumpkin puree and eggs. In a separate bowl, sift together all dry ingredients. Add dry mix into wet in two batches. Fold in walnuts.

Set oven to 350 F

Grease two loaf pans and divide batter evenly between pans. Bake for about 1 hour; in the last 20 minutes, sprinkle pumpkin seeds on top.