Reprinted from The Blood Type Diet Website (www.dadamo.com)

Pumpkin Bread

Description:

A good breakfast bread; if you use fructose, then its ok for diabetics, too.

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup white spelt flour (or 1/2 white, 1/2 whole spelt)
  • 1 cup oat flour
  • 3/4 cup turbinado sugar (or 1/2 cup fructose such as Estee brand)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder (non-aluminum)
  • 1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon cloves
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 2/3 cup walnut (or canola) oil
  • 1-1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup blackstrap molasses
  • 1 cup canned (or fresh mashed) pumpkin
  • 2/3 cup chopped up raisins or prunes
How to make it:
  1. Preheat oven to 335 degrees
  2. Spray a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray
  3. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl
  4. In a separate bowl, mix all wet ingredients
  5. Make a well in dry ingredient bowl and mix wet ingredients into dry, until just combined (don't overmix)
  6. Pour mixture into the sprayed loaf pan
  7. Bake for approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes or until it tests done (insert a toothpick - it should come out clean).
  8. Loosen edges, let sit in pan for about 10 minutes, then turn over and take bread out.