Monastery pumpkin bread
Time 15 minutes
Yields Makes 3 (8x4-inch) loaves
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DEAR SOS: With holidays approaching I would like to bake some pumpkin bread using canned pumpkin. Is there a recipe in your vast files?
--KIM
DEAR KIM: From our vast pumpkin bread recipe file we chose the Monastery Pumpkin Bread, made and sold by nuns of the Monastery of the Angels in Hollywood. It’s been a favorite of our readers throughout the decades.
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1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease three 8x4-inch loaf pans.
2
Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
3
Combine eggs, oil, water and pumpkin and mix well. Stir into dry ingredients.
4
Turn into the greased loaf pans and top with walnut halves. Bake for 1 hour or until wood pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool before slicing. Serve with butter.
Bread freezes well and tastes best slightly warm, spread with butter.
