New England Pumpkin Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup canola oil or 2/3 cup safflower oil
• 1 (16 ounce) can pumpkin
• 4 eggs
• 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2/3 cup milk
• 2/3 cup dried cranberries or 2/3 cup raisins or 2/3 cup craisins
• 2/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 2 mix sugar, oil, and pumpkin by hand. beat in eggs, one at a time.
• 3 sift dry ingredients together. mix into pumpkin mixture, alternating with milk. add cranberries and walnuts to batter. spread into greased loaf pans.
• 4 bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes (check after 1 hour, if using 3 small loaf pans.) cool for 15 minutes before removing from pans.