Pumpkin Loaf

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• ½ cup white sugar
• ½ cup dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup pumpkin purée (or instructions below tell you how to make from scratch)
• ½ cup olive oil
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup water
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts of your choice or you can use shelled pumpkin seeds for the top

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Sift together the flour, salt, sugar, and baking soda.
3. Mix the pumpkin, oil, eggs, 1/4 cup of water, and spices together, then combine with the dry ingredients.
4. Pour into a well-buttered loaf pan. Sprinkle with chopped nuts or seeds.
5. Bake 50-60 minutes until a thin skewer poked in the very center of the loaf comes out clean.
6. Turn out of the pan and let cool on a rack.
7. To make pumpkin purée from scratch.
8. Cut a small sugar or pie pumpkin in half, scoop out the insides and the seeds.
9. Place cut side down on a baking sheet.
10. Bake at 350°F until soft, about 45 min to an hour.
11. The pumpkin flesh will steam itself in the skin.
12. Cool, scoop out the flesh.