Pumpkin Crazy

With all of the holidays coming upon us, everybody and their mother is making pumpkin cookies, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin bread...etc. Well here's yet another Pumpkin Bread recipe.This has been in my family for years and is absolutely DELICIOUS! Please try it. You will not be disappointed. You do, however, have to make the altitude adjustments if you're over 6,000 feet as follows-

For each tsp., reduce baking powder 1/2-1/4 tsp
For each cup, reduce sugar up to 2 tbsp
For each cup, increase liquid 2-4 tbsp

*Delicious Pumpkin Bread*

Ingredients;

·         3 ½ Cups Flour

·         3 Cups Sugar

·         2 Tsp. Baking Soda

·         1 ½ Tsp. Salt

·         1 Tsp. Cinnamon

·         1 Tsp. Ginger

·         1 Tsp. Cloves

·         1 Tsp. Nutmeg

·         1 Cup Cooking Oil

·         4 Eggs

·         2/3 Cup Water

·         2 Cups Pumpkin

Sift together dry ingredients in a large bowl. Then add all remaining ingredients and mix well. Pour into 3 greased and floured 9x5 loaf pans. Bake at 350^o for 50-60 minutes.  Scrape around sides of panwith spatula as soon as the bread comes out of the oven- this will help life the bread from the pan. Then put bread on a cooling rack.

If you want to get really crazy, you can also add this wonderful Icing that I use on everything

*Yummy Icing*

Ingredients;

·         1/3 Cup butter

·         1 ½ Tsp. Vanilla

·         2 Cups Powdered Sugar

·         2 Tbsp. Water

Brown butter carefully in saucepan; add vanilla. Stir in powdered sugar, and add 2 Tbsp. Water, adding more as needed. Don’t get the icing to thing or it will make your dessert soggy.