Finding my Pumpkin Bread Recipe

I had the most delicious recipe for pumpkin bread.  Everyone who tried it raved about it.  Then I suddenly couldn't find my recipe, in spite of the fact that I had it written it in various notebooks.  Poof.  It was gone.  I tried to make it from memory once, an awful mistake.  It tasted like baking powder bread.

We were decluttering the messiest kitchen drawer (thank you FlyLady) and low and behold, after 4 or 5 years I found not one, but 2 copies of my treasured Pumpkin Bread.  Here it is, for all eternity.

3 cups of flour

2 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda

pinch salt

 

4 eggs

1 1/2 cups oil

2 cups Sugar

2 cups Pumpkin

2 cups raisins

 

Mix and sift together the dry ingredients and put aside.  Mix the eggs, oil and sugar, beat it Pumpkin, and slowly mix in the dry ingredients.  Stir in raisins.   Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour 3 medium or 2 large loaf pans, pour in batter and bake for 45 minutes for 3 loaves, 1 hour for 2 loaves, but check with toothpick, and continue to bake till it comes out clean.  

Enjoy it with cream cheese, and hopefully now, people will forget that awful mess I made from memory, lo those many years ago.