Pumpkin Bread I

Name: Pumpkin Bread I
Cook time: 90 min
Yield: 6 servings

Pumpkin bread ? Photo by Rexipe Rexipe, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bread Cuisine of the United States Pumpkin bread is a type of quickbread that's popular in the United States in October and November when fresh pumpkins are in season. There are countless variations. Although pumpkin bread and other pumpkin recipes are closely associated with American cuisine, these foods have a lengthy pre-Columbian history in North America.[http://www.mountainstudies.org/databank/history/Anasazi.htm History of the Anasazi] Many Native Americans tribes developed their own pumpkin-based recipes prior to the arrival of European settlers in the New World. Native tribes taught those settlers how to dry pumpkin flesh and grind it into a meal for cooking. Pumpkin based foods are so old in North America that archaeologists have found pumpkin remnants among the 800-year-old ruins of the Anasazi in the southwestern United States. Below is a pumpkin bread recipe that's very easy as long as you use canned pumpkin. You can use fresh pumpkin, if you prefer, but you'll have to put a lot of work into cutting, boiling, peeling and mashing.

Cooking time: 90 minutes
Servings: 6

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