This bread is so flavorful, we don’t miss the salt I removed from the recipe. The recipe makes 2 large loaves, or 3 medium-sized loaves. It’s our favorite spice bread recipe.
The recipe was adapted from Betty Crocker’s Cookbook, General Mills Inc. published in 1972.
- ⅔ cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs (or 3 extra-large eggs)
- 1 can (15-to-16 oz) pumpkin
- ⅔ cup water
- 3⅓ cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 2 tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp low-sodium baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- ⅔ cup coarsely chopped nuts
- ⅔ cup raisins
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pans or three 8½ x 4½ x 2½ inch loaf pans.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and cloves. Then sift it again to make sure the ingredients are well mixed.
- In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until well mixed and fluffy.
- Stir in eggs, pumpkin, and water. Mix well.
- Stir in the sifted dry ingredients until well blended.
- Stir in nuts and raisins.
- Pour into loaf pans. Bake about 70 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. (To make sure you don't overcook the bread, check after 60 minutes, then check each 5 minutes until the bread is done.)
- You can serve the bread warm or after it cools. Or, you can wrap in aluminum foil after it cools and then freeze it to serve later.
According to our estimates, one serving of this bread will contain 120 mg of sodium.
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. 120mg of sodium per serving implies that this recipe provides:
– 5% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 8% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 12% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
