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Pumpkin Bread

A simple bread made with stewed pumpkin and plain cornmeal batter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a plain cornmeal batter.

  2. Beat in 1 cup of stewed pumpkin.

  3. Bake in a bread pan or in gem tins.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Stewed pumpkin
Adds moisture and a soft, tender crumb to the batter.
Plain cornmeal batter
Provides the base structure and a slightly grainy texture for the bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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