KAREN'S PUMPKIN DATE BREAD

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This is my favorite recipe around the holidays. The combinations I thought up work very well together. The recipe originally was my grandmother's. I added the dates and everyone was wild about it.

Provided by KarenK

Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes Pumpkin Bread Recipes

Time 1h30m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 13

Ingredients

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
⅓ cup buttermilk
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ⅓ cups raw sugar
⅓ cup shortening, softened
2 eggs
1 cup pumpkin puree
⅓ cup chopped dates

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, and cloves together in a bowl.
Mix buttermilk and vanilla extract together in a small bowl.
Beat sugar and shortening in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Beat in pumpkin puree. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk mixture, beating batter briefly after each addition.
Fold dates into the batter. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 351.9 calories, Carbohydrate 61.3 g, Cholesterol 46.9 mg, Fat 10.3 g, Fiber 2.3 g, Protein 5.3 g, SaturatedFat 2.7 g, Sodium 578.8 mg, Sugar 37.6 g