Prize Winning Thanksgiving Harvest Bread
1980 Winner of the Florida Suncoast Recipe Contest
1 1/2 cups white granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup solid pack canned pumpkin
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 teaspoon table salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teastpoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped nuts (or more to taste)
Combine sugar, oil, beaten eggs, pumpkin and oats. Beat well.
Sift dry ingerdients together and add to above mixture. Add chopped nuts. Mix well.
Put batter into a greased 9-by 5-inch loaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 1/4 hours or unitl it tests done (toothpick poked in center comes out clean).
Source: St Petersburg FL Evening Independent newspaper, Nov 19, 1980