Thanksgiving Recipe

I got the following recipe many years ago from a woman who loves Jesus very much and is also a wonderful homemaker. The kids and I make one or two batches of this bread every year before Thanksgiving to pass out to neighbors and friends. I usually buy the disposable bread pans. I have the kids adhere the saying and some fall stickers to the outside of brown paper lunch bags, then we slip the loaf pans into the bags for giving away.

THANKSGIVING BREAD RECIPE

• 6 C. sifted flour
• 6 tsp. baking powder
• 1 ½ tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 ½ tsp. nutmeg
• 2 C. candied cherries, cut in half
• 3 C. cooked pumpkin (if canned, add 3 T. Water)
• 3 C. sugar
• 1½ C. milk
• 6 eggs
• ¾ c. butter, softened
• 2 C. coarsely chopped nuts
• 1 C. golden raisins

In large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, milk and eggs and beat well. Set aside.

In another large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir well to blend. Stir mixture into pumpkin mixture until just moistened. Gently stir softened butter into mixture. Fold in candied cherries, chopped nuts and golden raisins.

Pour batter into 12 3”x6” greased and floured bread pans. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. (May use 4-6 4”x8” pans and bake 55 minutes to 1 hr.)

THANKSGIVING BREAD

The ingredients in this bread represent the blessings in our lives. The candied cherries are all the good things in life for which we are readily thankful. The golden raisins are the hard-to-see everyday blessings that we take for granted and forget to be thankful for. The nuts are life’s trials that are tough to get through, but reveal their good in the end.