Pumpkin Walnut Bread

This bread is haunting. The recipe makes two 9x5 breads. If you are only going to use one, give the other as a gift or freeze it for yourself.

• 1-1/3 stick butter, room temperature
• 1 -3/4 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups pumpkin puree
• 2/3 cups soy milk
• 3-1/2 cups flour
• 2 tbs. spices:combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves
• 3 tsp. baking power
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9X5 bread pans.
2. In large bowl cream butter and sugar until smooth.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating with a fork until light.
4. Blend in pumpkin and soy milk.
5. In another bowl combine the dry ingredients.
6. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients blending with a rubber spatula.
7. Add walnuts and fold into buttered pans.
8. Bake for an hour. Cool on rack.