This is a great Amish pumpkin bread recipe, a moist, delicious pumpkin bread perfect as summer fades into fall.
The bread is super with butter or cream cheese thickly spread onto it.
🚜 The Amish and Pumpkin Harvesting
Pumpkins are a favorite crop on Amish family farms. The whole family can get involved in harvesting. I've seen Amish families moving through a pumpkin crop with a horse-drawn wagon, the teenage boys and girls picking the pumpkins from the field and tossing them up onto the cart where the younger siblings put them into bins. It's an all-hands-on-deck harvest.
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📋 Step-by-Step Pumpkin Bread
Nothing says autumn more than pumpkin bread. This is perhaps the best pumpkin bread recipe I've found because it is so easy. I mean, most are easy, but this is easy and flavorful, a perfect fall quick bread recipe.
These are all the ingredients in the bowl before being mixed. Put the dry ingredients in the bowl first and then add the wet ingredients and stir.
The recipe calls for vegetable oil, but you can use canola oil or even olive oil. This is where if you wanted to add other spices to your bread, such as nutmeg, cloves, ginger, or pumpkin pie spice, you can do so. I'm not a huge clove fan, but some people really like the the flavor when combined with pumpkin. The only thing I'd be tempted to add that isn't in the recipe below is maybe a teaspoon of vanilla.
Stir the flour mixture with a spoon or use an electric mixer. Some people like to add raisins (yuck) or cranberries or even chocolate chips, but I am a pumpkin bread purist, if I wanted a bunch of other things in it I'd eat some trail mix or something. I like my pumpkin bread nice and pumpkin-filled, spread with cream cheese or butter.
Pour the batter into two greased loaf pans with the batter and put into the oven.
The bake time on this is about an hour, comes out of the oven when a toothpick comes out clean.
Put the bread on a wire rack to cool when it is out of the oven. What is great about pumpkin bread is its versatility. You'll find it on breakfast menus, served as a dessert, or slice it up and use it for snacks.
Slice it up and put into a sealable container or cover with plastic wrap.
📹 Watch Quick Pumpkin Bread Tutorial
🖨️ Full Recipe
Amish Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 cups homemade pumpkin puree or 1-15 ounce can pumpkin puree
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- ⅔ cup water
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup pecans, chopped (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Grease and flour two 9 X 5 inch loaf pans.
- Knock out the excess flour.
- Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.
- Stir with a whisk to blend.Stir in the pumpkin, eggs, water, oil, and pecans.Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
- Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.
Tom the back roads traveller
What a great shot!