[artisticmind]

3 1/2 cups flour
2 3/4 cups sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups pumpkin
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 cup water
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup oil


Heat oven to 350*. Mix all ingredients until moist. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.

If using the small aluminum breadpans (the one time use ones), they are usually sold in 3-packs and there should be enough batter to fill the 3 pans half full. If using bigger pans you should get at least 2 loaves.

My variation is to use the whole small can of canned pumpkin because there is like an 1/8th of a cup left and i figure why waste it because around here canned pumpkin can be hard to find at times thanks to the little old ladies Also someone has told me that you can use pumpkin spice in place of the the 1tsp each of cinnamon and nutmeg. I guess you would just use 2 tsps of the pumpkin spice but i don't know if pumpkin spice is made with equal parts of cinnamon and nutmeg. Never tried it, i just use the separate spices. It's my grandma's recipe and i don't ever recall her using pumpkin spice so i've never tried it...why fix what's not broken