Pumpkin, Ginger And Port Wine Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 2/3 cups port wine
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup pecans
• 1/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees. grease and flour three loaf pans. in a very large bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.whisk together.
• 2 in another large bowl combine pumpkin, eggs, oil, sugar and wine and beat until well-blended.
• 3 pour pumpkin mixture over the dry ingredients, beat with mixer on high speed. stir in nuts, ginger and cranberries.
• 4 divide batter between loaf pans.
• 5 bake 50 to 60 minutes, until loaves begin to pull from sides of pan and a wooden skewer (inserted in the center of breads) comes out clean. cool in pans on a rack for 15 minutes. invert onto rackst and completely cool.