[recipe] Pumpkin Date Bread

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Here is another yummy quick bread recipe. i got this one out of a

Taste of Home cookbook back in '97. Everyone that has tried it

loves it and can't tell it is " healthy " .

 

Pumpkin Date Bread

 

1/3 cup margarine, softened

3 Tbs brown sugar

Egg substitute equivalent to 2 eggs

1 cup solid pack pumpkin

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking pwdr

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground cloves

1/4 tsp ground allspice

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 cup quick-cooking oats

1/2 cup chopped dates

 

In a mixing bowl, cream margarine and sugar.

Beat in egg substitute and pumpkin. Combine the

dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately

with buttermilk. Stir in the oats and dates. Pour into

an 8x4x2 inch loaf pan coated with non-stick spray.

Bake at 350 for 75 minutes or until a wooden pick

inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan

10 minutes; remove to a wire wrack to finish cooling.

Yield: 1 loaf (15 slices)

 

Diabetic exchanges: One slice equals 1 1/2 starch,

1 fat; also 148 calories, 198 mg sodium, 0 cholesterol,

21 gm carbohydrate, 4 gm protein, 6 gm fat.

 

~ pt ~

 

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all

possibilities.  Its nature is to expand and unfold its full

potential.  The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the

very nature of life.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi