Pumpkin Pine-Nut Bread

A wonderful harvest bread for the fall time.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 2 loaves

Ingredients

• 2  cups flour
• 3  eggs, beaten
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup  oil
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups pumpkin, cooked
• 1 1⁄2 cups pine nuts, roasted

Directions

1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Mix eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla. Mix well and add pumpkin. Mix well again.
3. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
4. Add pine nuts. (To roast the pine nuts, place them on a cookie sheet in the oven at ~350 degrees watching carefully to not burn).
5. Pour batter into two loaf pans (~5x9-inch) and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.