Pumpkin Bread Recipe

For your Thanksgiving table from the Kiddush Committee:

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:
1 small pumpkin; roasted, fleshed scooped out and puréed. Or use a 15oz can of puréed pumpkin.
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup water (or milk)
1-1/2 cups white sugar
2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

 

Directions:

1. Preheat 350. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans, about 3×8 size.
2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin, eggs, oil, water, and sugar until well blended.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
4. Bake for 50 minutes. Check for doneness with a toothpick.