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Steve's Pumpkin Bread

The best & most highly requested pumpkin recipe you will ever find!

Course Side Dish
Keyword bread, pumpkin
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 16 oz can pumpkin
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 large eggs
  • 3 cups sugar
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 ½ tsp salt
  • 1 ½ tsp allspice
  • 1 ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 ½ cups flour

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 300° F.
  2. Combine pumpkin, oil and eggs. Mix until smooth. Add sugar. Mix until smooth. Add baking soda, spices and flour. Mix until smooth.
  3. Grease and flour 2 large bread pans (9x5x3 inch). Pour batter into bread pans.
  4. Bake for 60 minutes or until a knife inserted into the top center comes out clean. I generally have to bake at least 70-75 minutes, but I start checking at 60 minutes.
  5. Remove from oven. Let sit for about 5 minutes and then remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool.

Recipe Notes

Canned pumpkin: I have tried named brand (Libby’s) and store brand (Kroger). The bread will have a different color and taste depending upon which you use. I prefer and use Kroger store brand canned pumpkin.

Cooking time: I start checking the bread at 60 minutes. With the large loaves, it normally takes 70-75 minutes – and sometimes as long as 90 minutes. Some aficionados of this bread like it a little gooey in the top center.

Grease and Flour: I use a vegetable spray which already contains flour to grease and flour my pans. It is quick and easy.

Soft Crust or Crusty Crust?: To get a soft or moist crust, after removing bread from bread pan, let bread cool on wire rack for about 10 minutes. Then wrap in saran wrap while still warm. Once bread is completely cooled, crust will be moist. To get a crusty crust, after removing bread from bread pan, let bread cool completely on wire rack.