Here's a very special post from Doug in our Arkansas Test Kitchen...
With the passing of my mother in May, we had to go through all of her stuff, each of us finding different things that made a special connection to her. The one thing that we all wanted was her recipes. Among them are Angel Eggs (Deviled Eggs, but my brother didn't like calling them Deviled Eggs so we changed the name), Snow Cream (the last thing she ever made for my son and I when we were home at Christmas), and her Pumpkin Bread. It is well publicized that we here at Cool Dads Cook love pumpkin so what better way to pay tribute than to make some of her Pumpkin Bread and post it on the blog?
We call this Nana's Pumpkin Bread, because when my son and nephew were born (10 days apart) my mother wanted to be called Nana. Why Nana no one knows, but that's what she wanted to be called!
Nana's Pumpkin Bread
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
3 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
5 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
1 can pumpkin puree
1. Mix together eggs, vegetable oil, and sugar in a large bowl.
We call this Nana's Pumpkin Bread, because when my son and nephew were born (10 days apart) my mother wanted to be called Nana. Why Nana no one knows, but that's what she wanted to be called!
Nana's Pumpkin Bread
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
3 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
5 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
1 can pumpkin puree
1. Mix together eggs, vegetable oil, and sugar in a large bowl.
2. Chop 1 cup pecans
3. Add plain flour, pumpkin pie spice, salt, cinnamon, vanilla, baking soda, chopped pecans, and pumpkin puree.
4. Mix for approximately 5 minutes
5. Spray cooking spray into 4 loaf pans
6. Pour batter equally into prepared loaf pans
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
One of the ways we had lil' dude help while we were cooking was to have him count as I was measuring out ingredients.
When the lil' dude helps in the kitchen, he has a lot of ownership in his work, and it's also a great way to get more nutritious food into his diet. Lil' dude will not eat anything that is not a chicken nugget or a fish stick, unless he helps make it. After he helped make this pumpkin bread, he now asks to make / eat it every day; this makes his mom and cool dad extremely happy.
When the lil' dude helps in the kitchen, he has a lot of ownership in his work, and it's also a great way to get more nutritious food into his diet. Lil' dude will not eat anything that is not a chicken nugget or a fish stick, unless he helps make it. After he helped make this pumpkin bread, he now asks to make / eat it every day; this makes his mom and cool dad extremely happy.
We hope you enjoyed this special recipe as much as we did!
Stay Cool,
The Cool Dads Cook Crew
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