My Mother's Pumpkin Bread with Homemade Honey Butter includes Recipe and Video

Pumpkin Bread

This is my mother’s recipe for pumpkin bread.  She made this all the time when I was little.   My mom never used a recipe; she had it in her head.  Now I have it in my head, since I grew up helping her make it.  It’s a wonderful fall recipe, and the honey butter (recipe follows) is absolutely delicious spread on a slice of pumpkin bread with a cup of tea.

Click Here to see Gloucester Times VIDEO of Sheree making Pumpkin Bread

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
3 cups of refined sugar
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2/3 cup of water
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
4 eggs
2 cups pureed pumpkin
1 cup vegetable oil 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, sift flour and sugar, then add nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and salt and mix all ingredients with a whisk.
3. In another mixing bowl, add eggs and scramble. To the eggs add pumpkin, oil, and vanilla and mix all together until smooth.
4. Ad d the dry ingredients that were mixed together, 1/3 at a time, and mix until smooth.
5. Oil two nine inch bread pans and lightly powder with flour. Add pumpkin mixture to each bread pan, filling 2/3 of the pan.
6. Bake in oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Serve with Homemade Honey Butter (see recipe below).

Homemade Honey Butter 

Click Here to See Gloucester Times Video of Sheree making Honey Butter

Yield: ½ cup

Ingredients:
½ cup butter (1 stick)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 to 1/2 tablespoons of honey

Instructions:
1. Whip butter with mixer until it becomes fluffy and aerated.
2. Add brown sugar and continue mixing, scarping down bowl when necessary.
3. Add honey and finish mixing, scraping bowl at least one more time.