Pumpkin Bread

kathleenbeccue on 9.11.2010

Well, I didn’t follow this exactly.
Butter for shortening
Only 2 cups white sugar.
Homemade pumpkin puree (more watery than it’s canned counterpart)
1/2 cup apple juice instead of 2/3 water
No cinnamon (was out).
Nutmeg and ground ginger, instead.
Chopped crystallized ginger, about 3/4 cup, mixed in.
Sprinkled top with demerara (demerera?) sugar.
Made muffins from half (great).
Loaf from half (took a long time to cook through and got a little too browned for my tastes)–used European style long skinny loaf pan, too.
All other measure were exact.
Would do again. It lends itself to experimentation–raisins, dates, walnuts, pecans, more or less or none of this spice or that.
Bravo.