Pumpkin Quick Bread 2/3 cup butter or margarine 2 cups dark brown sugar 4 eggs 1 can (1 lb.) or 2 cups mashed squash or pumpkin 2/3 cup water or milk 2 3/4 cups rice flour 1/4 cup soy or gram flour 1/2 tsp. baking powder 2 tsp. baking soda 1 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. cloves 2/3 cup chopped nuts 1/3 cup golden raisins 1/3 cup raisins --Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, pumpkin, and water (or milk). In another bowl mix flours, baking powder, soda, salt, and spices. Add to pumpkin mix. Stir in nuts and raisins. --Pour into 2 greased 9x5" loaf pans. --Bake at 350 degrees F for one hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center of each loaf comes out clean. Not as fattening - Pumpkin Spice Bread 1/4 cup Oleo 1/2 cup sugar 4 eggs (or substitute) 1/2 cup milk (skim is OK) 1/4 cup Dark Molasses 2 Tbs Dark Rum 1 cup Pumpkin, cooked 1 tsp Baking powder 1 tsp Baking soda 2/3 cup Sweet rice flour 1-2/3 cup brown rice flour 1/2 tsp each, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, cinnemon Cream oleo and sugar together in bowl (or food processor), add eggs one at a time and mix till fluffy. Add milk, molasses, rum and pumpkin. Mix well. Sift all dry ingredients except spices, into a large bowl. Add spices and egg mixture and mix on med speed 2-3 minutes. Pam 3 mini loaf pans, 1 8" loaf pan or bundt pan and pour mix in. Bake 1 hr and 10 minutes for bundt or single loaf, 40 minutes for small mini loaf pans. |