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Pumpkin Apple Bread

Source of Recipe


From "The Gourmet Cookbook"






List of Ingredients



• -- For Topping --
  
• 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour
  
• 5 Tbsp sugar
  
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  
• 1 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened
  
• .
  
• -- For Bread --
  
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 3/4 tsp salt
  
• 2 tsp baking soda
  
• 1-1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  
• 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
  
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  
• 1/4 tsp ground allspice
  
• 1 (15-ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin
  
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  
• 2-1/4 cups sugar
  
• 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
  
• 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped (2 cups)
  






Instructions



1. Make the topping:
   Blend together flour, sugar, cinnamon and butter in a small bowl with your fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal.
   
   
2. Make the bread:
   Put a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat oven to 350° F. Butter two 9- x 5-inch loaf pans.
   
   
3. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice into a medium bowl. Whisk together pumpkin, oil, sugar and eggs in a large bowl. Add flour mixture, stirring until well combined. Fold in apples.
   
   
4. Divide batter between buttered loaf pans. Sprinkle half of topping evenly over each loaf. Bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center of bread comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
   
   
5. Cool loaves in pans on a rack for 45 minutes, then turn out onto rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.
   
   Makes two 9 x 5-inch loaves.