Recipe: Pumpkin Bread (Del Monte's recipe, 1970's)

PUMPKIN BREAD

3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
4 eggs, beaten
1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin puree (not pie filling)
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
2/3 cup water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Well grease and flour 2 (9x5-inch) loaf pans.

Cream sugar and oil together. Add eggs and pumpkin; mix well; set aside

Sift together dry ingredients; add dry ingredients alternating with 2/3 cup water to the wet ingredients. Pour into prepared pans.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours or until tests done. Let stand 10 minutes. Remove from pans to cool.

Make 2 loaves
Source: Del Monte pumpkin can label, 1970's