My good friend M. gave me a recipe for a Harvest Loaf, that turns out very tasty.
HARVEST LOAF
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
Cream butter and sugar with the mixer. Add the eggs one at a time. Stir in the pumpkin. Add 1 cup cut up dates (or raisins)
In another bowl mix together:
1 1/2 cups white flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
Stir the dry mixture into the wet ingredients. Spoon into a 9 x 5 loaf pan lined with parchment paper.
Bake at 350ยบ for one hour. Cool. Wrap.
Keeps well, freezes well, and tastes terrific.
This morning I made a triple recipe, and used a whole package of dates which had been in the cupboard for some time. I microwaved them to soften them and cut them vertically and then horizontally. This worked very well.
This recipe has been changed to reflect the way I bake, viz. less sugar, less white flour and some whole wheat flour instead, and the addition of dates in place of chocolate chips. I tripled the ingredients, because that uses one large can of pumpkin. The small sized can seems to hold enough to two loaves.
The first time I used this recipe, I made one loaf, which used 1/2 of a smaller can of pumpkin and froze the other cup for later use. I've also adapted this recipe to my standard muffin recipe. Those changes: no butter, but 3 TBS of olive oil in its place and 1/2 cup sugar instead of 3/4 cup. Bake in parchment lined muffin tins for 25 min.
That adaptation turned out very well also. I think I used raisins in that one.
Earlier this week we watched a new Ken Burns film, "The Sharps War." Everything by Ken Burns is excellent, and this film about a pastoral couple who were sent to Poland just before the Second World War with the mission to save as many Jewish people, especially children, as possible. They were successful in saving quite a few. It was a difficult, very dangerous task. Very well done, and very worthwhile to watch. It aired on PBS, and if past programs are anything to go by, it will be shown again sometime on PBS.
HARVEST LOAF
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
Cream butter and sugar with the mixer. Add the eggs one at a time. Stir in the pumpkin. Add 1 cup cut up dates (or raisins)
In another bowl mix together:
1 1/2 cups white flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
Stir the dry mixture into the wet ingredients. Spoon into a 9 x 5 loaf pan lined with parchment paper.
Bake at 350ยบ for one hour. Cool. Wrap.
Keeps well, freezes well, and tastes terrific.
This morning I made a triple recipe, and used a whole package of dates which had been in the cupboard for some time. I microwaved them to soften them and cut them vertically and then horizontally. This worked very well.
This recipe has been changed to reflect the way I bake, viz. less sugar, less white flour and some whole wheat flour instead, and the addition of dates in place of chocolate chips. I tripled the ingredients, because that uses one large can of pumpkin. The small sized can seems to hold enough to two loaves.
The first time I used this recipe, I made one loaf, which used 1/2 of a smaller can of pumpkin and froze the other cup for later use. I've also adapted this recipe to my standard muffin recipe. Those changes: no butter, but 3 TBS of olive oil in its place and 1/2 cup sugar instead of 3/4 cup. Bake in parchment lined muffin tins for 25 min.
That adaptation turned out very well also. I think I used raisins in that one.
Earlier this week we watched a new Ken Burns film, "The Sharps War." Everything by Ken Burns is excellent, and this film about a pastoral couple who were sent to Poland just before the Second World War with the mission to save as many Jewish people, especially children, as possible. They were successful in saving quite a few. It was a difficult, very dangerous task. Very well done, and very worthwhile to watch. It aired on PBS, and if past programs are anything to go by, it will be shown again sometime on PBS.
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