Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread

Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread - from allrecipes.com user Laurie Bennett

Ingredients:
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil (I used 1/2 cup applesauce and 1/2 cup veg. oil instead)
2/3 cup water (I used apple juice instead)
3 cups white sugar (I only did 1 cup white sugar plus 1 cup brown sugar)
1 teaspoon vanilla (original recipe didn't call for this)
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger


Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
3. Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.