Home made pumpkin bread

I baked two loaves of pumpkin bread today with the pumpkin that I harvested on Friday. I opted to bake bread rather than pie because it seems a lot easier and required less ingredients. It probably took a total of three hours to make, but only because we could not microwave the entire pumpkin at once, and we could only bake one loaf of bread at a time (we only had one pan). The recipe that I used came from Pumpkin Patches and More, which is a great site for pumpkin recipes.

This is how to make pumpkin bread with a real pumpkin.

To make pumpkin bread you need a pumpkin, eggs, flour, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, sugar, water, and vegetable oil.


1. First, you will have to make pumpkin puree. Cut open and clean all of the seeds and guts out of the pumpkin.



2. Once the pumpkin is cleaned out you need to put it in a microwaveable bowl with some water and microwave it for about 20 minutes.


3. It is done when the pumpkin has become soft and peals off of the skin. Now you need to remove all of the skin and mash or blend the pumpkin into a puree.



4. Now that the puree is done you can actually make the bread. Mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and salt. Than add the oil, water, pumpkin and eggs and blend everything together.




5. Pour the blend into a 9x5 baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.



6. Once the hour is up you will have a delicious loaf of pumpkin bread. Our pumpkin produced enough puree that we are going to make another four loaves of bread. The extra puree can be frozen for later use.


Here is the finished product.