Advent Calendar Cookbook—Day 18: Pumpkin Bread

Recipe submitted by Annie Stockmal, Graduate Assistant at Falvey Library

Image courtesy of Once Upon a Chef.

Ingredients:

• 3½ cups flour.
• 3 cups sugar.
• 2 tsp baking soda.
• 1½  tsp salt.
• 1 tsp nutmeg.
• 2 tsp cinnamon.
• 2 tsp allspice.
• 1 cup oil.
• 1 (16oz) can pumpkin.
• 2/3 cup water.
• 4 eggs.
• 1 cup raisins (optional).

Instructions:

• Mix all ingredients together.
• Pour in two greased loaf pans.
• Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour (makes two loaves).