Shelly's Recipe

PUMPKIN BREAD WITH ORANGE BUTTER

Category: Quick Breads

1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup hot water
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 cups sugar
2 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp salt
3-1/2 cups flour

Orange Butter
1/2 lb butter, softened
1/2 box confectioners sugar
Grated rind of 2 oranges
2 tbsp orange juice concentrate

Preheat oven to 350. Prepare Pumpkin Bread: Dissolve soda in hot water. Mix together oil, sugar and pumpkin and add to soda mixture. Add eggs, cinnamon, cloves, salt and flour and mix until moistened. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour. Remove from loaf pans and cool on wire racks.

Prepare Orange Butter: Beat butter and sugar together. Add orange rind and juice concentrate and mix well. Place into decorative crock and serve with Pumpkin Bread.