Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread

Another delicious recipe that I pulled from Allrecipes.com, one of my favorite places to search for recipes mainly because I can read reviews and the alterations people have made to the recipes.  It is great! This recipe is so very simple to make and it makes 3 small loaves of bread (again perfect for sharing which is what the holidays are all about!).

Here is the recipe:

1 (15 oz. can pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling)
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
3 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsps baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.