Sister Mary Agnes' Canadian
grandmother's recipe for pumpkin bread
which the Monastery of the Angels in the Hollywood
Hills of California sells during Christmas
3½ cups sifted flour
3 cups sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1½ tsp. salt
4 eggs beaten
1 cup oil
2/3 cup water
2 cups canned pumpkin
Walnut halves
Sift together flour, sugar, baking soda,
cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Combine eggs, oil, water and pumpkin and mix
well. Stir into dry ingredients. Turn into 3 greased loaf pans and
top with a few walnut halves. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until cake
tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool before slicing. (Tastes
best slightly warm, spread with butter.) Makes 3 1-3/4 lb. loaves.
