Not Your Mother’s Pumpkin Bread

Description

This adult version of an old classic is not as sweet as its predecessors. It has subtle and tantalizing spicing. Delish!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar
  • 1 cup walnut oil
  • 1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin puree
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking soda
  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cloves
  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground coriander
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • ½ cup cream sherry
  • 1 ½ cups chopped walnuts

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease three 8×4 inch loaf pans.
  2. In a large bowl
  3. beat together white sugar
  4. brown sugar and oil. Stir in the pumpkin. Mix in the eggs one at a time
  5. beating well with each addition.
  6. In a separate bowl
  7. sift together flour
  8. baking soda
  9. cinnamon
  10. cloves
  11. coriander and salt. Stir dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture until smooth. Stir in cream sherry. Beat till thoroughly blended
  12. 1 to 2 minutes. Fold in nuts. Spoon batter into 3 greased 8×4 inch loaf pans
  13. filling no more than three quarters full.
  14. Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted into center of a loaf comes out clean
  15. about 65 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes in pans before turn out onto wire racks to cool completely. Can be kept at room temp. for 4 days or frozen.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 5 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Servings: 36

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