Pumpkin
Bread
3½ cups
all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. baking
powder
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup butter
flavored Crisco
4 eggs
2 cups pumpkin,
cooked, mashed, cooled
1 cup fig
conserves
*Preheat
confection oven to 325º.
Spray two bread
loaf pans (9x5”) with cooking spray, or grease with shortening.
Combine flour,
baking soda, cinnamon, and baking powder; set aside. Beat Crisco and sugar together until light
and fluffy; add eggs one at a time and then add pumpkin. Blend well. Stir in flour mixture and conserves. Divide amongst the two loaf pans. Bake 40-45 minutes or until wooden toothpick
inserted near center comes out clean. Cool ten minutes and remove from pans to
cool on wire racks completely.
*If using a
conventional oven preheat to 350º and cook 55-60 minutes.
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