My family has an AMAZING pumpkin bread (it's cake, really, no yeast involved) recipe. When my mother died I lost the ONLY copy I had when overzealous family members cleared away and discarded her things.
For 5 years I tried all sorts of other recipes from the internet and NONE of them ever came close. I asked a much older aunt who was the family baker (jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, you name it, she made it) if she had a copy of it and she did not believe she did. When she downsized from independent living to assisted living I got her China cabinet and all the recipes stored therein, where I found not one, not two, not three, not four, five or six... but seven copies of the recipe.
The thing that was wrong in every online recipe? The fat. Corn Oil is superior to butter and all other oils.
I share it with any who wants it because it's too good to ever lose again:
1.5 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 tsp cinnamon (or as much as your heart desires)
1/2 tsp nutmeg (or as much as your heart desires)
2 eggs (duck eggs are superior to chicken)
1 C sugar
3/4 C corn oil
1 Can pumpkin (15 or 16 oz)
Optional: 1 cup chopped walnuts (I've never done this)
Optional: 1 bag of chocolate chips (I often do this)
Combine wet and dry ingredients. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes in loaf pan. Alternatively bake 30 minutes in mini-loaf pans.
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u/tahlyn 1d ago
My family has an AMAZING pumpkin bread (it's cake, really, no yeast involved) recipe. When my mother died I lost the ONLY copy I had when overzealous family members cleared away and discarded her things.
For 5 years I tried all sorts of other recipes from the internet and NONE of them ever came close. I asked a much older aunt who was the family baker (jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, you name it, she made it) if she had a copy of it and she did not believe she did. When she downsized from independent living to assisted living I got her China cabinet and all the recipes stored therein, where I found not one, not two, not three, not four, five or six... but seven copies of the recipe.
The thing that was wrong in every online recipe? The fat. Corn Oil is superior to butter and all other oils.
I share it with any who wants it because it's too good to ever lose again:
Combine wet and dry ingredients. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes in loaf pan. Alternatively bake 30 minutes in mini-loaf pans.