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- From: oday@hplabs (Vicki O'Day)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Pumpkin bread
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- Date: 12 Dec 86 07:55:41 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PUMPKIN-BREAD D "18 Sep 86" 1986
- .RZ "HALF MOON BAY PUMPKIN BREAD" "A dessert bread made from pumpkins"
- Every year in Half Moon Bay, California there is a Pumpkin Festival, at
- which prizes are given for the largest pumpkin in the world. Never mind that
- for the last two years the winner has been in Nova Scotia: the citizens of
- Half Moon Bay take pumpkins very seriously.
- .PP
- At Christmastime in Half Moon Bay, people give each other little tins of
- this bread as presents. I also take it backpacking, because it's
- pretty resistant to being squashed (and tastes fine even when it is).
- .IH "3 1-pound loaves" "3 500-gram loaves"
- .IG "3 cups" "granulated sugar" "570 g"
- .IG "3\(12 cups" "all-purpose flour" "350 g"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "baking soda" "10 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "cinnamon" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "nutmeg" "5 ml"
- .IG "4" "large eggs"
- .IG "1 cup" "vegetable oil" "250 ml"
- .IG "2 cups" "cooked pumpkin" "350 g"
- .IG "2/3 cup" "water" "160 ml"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "chopped walnuts" "175 g"
- .IG "" "cream cheese"
- (optional; for serving)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat the oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 2
- Butter your containers well.
- .SK 3
- Sift the dry ingredients together into a large bowl.
- .SK 4
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and
- add the eggs, oil, pumpkin and water. Beat thoroughly.
- It's easier to get all the lumps out if you use an
- electric mixer.
- .SK 5
- Stir in the walnuts with a wooden spoon.
- .SK 6
- Pour the batter into the containers, filling each only half to two-thirds
- full.
- .SK 7
- Bake for 60\-90 minutes, depending on the sizes of your
- containers. If you're using a very small container, start
- checking much sooner. The bread is done when a toothpick in
- the middle comes out clean.
- .SK 8
- Cool about ten minutes, then loosen the edges of the bread
- with a knife, and turn out of the pans to cool the rest of
- the way on a rack.
- .NX
- For baking containers, you can use a loaf pan,
- metal cans, or whatever. I usually use 1-pound coffee cans,
- and it takes three of them. If you want tiny loaves, you
- could probably use soup cans.
- .PP
- I think the nuts are important in this recipe. Unless
- you absolutely hate them, leave them in.
- .PP
- It's not necessary, but you can serve some good cream
- cheese with it to spread on the slices if you like.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, 90 minutes cooking.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Vicki O'Day
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, USA
- hplabs!oday
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