Monastery of the Angels Pumpkin Bread

  Posted on October 5, 2011  by Leslie Blythe  No comments

3½ cups flour
3 cups sugar
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1½ tsp salt
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2/3 cup water
2 cups pumpkin, cooked & mashed or 1 (15 oz) cans pumpkin puree
1½ cups walnuts, chopped
walnut halves, for decoration

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl mix together flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
Combine eggs, oil, water, and pumpkin and mix well.

Stir wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Add chopped walnuts.

Turn into three greased 8 X 4-inch loaf pans.Top with a few walnut halves.

Bake for one hour or until a wood pick inserted in the center of a loaf comes out clean.
Cool before removing from the pans.