02 Aug Rustic Pumpkin Breads

Preparation Time: 60 minutes

Serves 12

Ingredients

• 1 ¾ cup mashed pumpkin
• 1 ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter, softened
• 3 eggs
• 3-4 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 cups chopped walnuts or chocolate chips or both

Method

Preheat your oven to 350

• Combine the pumpkin, brown sugar, butter, eggs & mix until creamy.
• In a separate bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients except the nuts or chocolate chips.
• Mix 3 cups of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, then add as much of the 4th cup as necessary to achieve the following consistency: moist, but thick enough to stand a spoon in. Add the nuts or chocolate chips and stir in.
• Pour or spoon the batter into greased muffin tins or bread pans. Bake on the centre rack until a toothpick poked into the centre comes out dry.

NOTE: At sea level, muffins should take between 20 and 25 minutes to bake, small loaves between 25 and 30 minutes, and full sized loaves between 50 minutes and 1 hour.

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