pumpkin bread

Ingredients

• 2-1/2 cups sugar

• 1 cup vegetable oil

• 3 eggs

• 1 15-oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)

• 3 cups flour

• 1 teaspoon ground cloves

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon nutmeg

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350, and grease 2 9x5x3 loaf pans (I use a little vegetable oil to do this, because I prefer it to cooking spray or the butter/flour method).

2. Beat sugar and oil in a large bowl, then beat in eggs and pumpkin.

3. Add half the flour, and all the spices and baking soda, powder, and salt. Stir gently to combine, then add the rest of the flour and stir gently.

4. Divide the batter into the pans, and bake 50-65 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean (mine took exactly one hour). Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to finish cooling.