I want to make "Canned Pumpkin Bread". I understand there is a good recipe on Page 78 of Volume 80 / No. 1 Jan/Feb 1996 issue of Countryside. Would someone please track down this recipe and e-mail it to me? (I only found out about Countryside Magazine in 1999)I was thinking about canning some bread and stashing it away for instant Christmas presents. Thank You! Harmony

-- Harmony Bullington (harmonyfarm57@hotmail.com), October 12, 2001

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Response to Recipe from a 1996 Issue of Countryside

Better yet, would someone post it here? Lots of us didn't get the magazine back then, and I'd like to have it, too! Thanks, Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), October 12, 2001.

Response to Recipe from a 1996 Issue of Countryside

Pumplin Bread in a Jar

2/3 cups shortning

4 eggs

2/3 cups water

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup chopped walnuts

2-2/3 cups sugar

2 cups pumpkin-canned or freshly cooked

3-1/3 cups flour

1-1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon alspice

2 teaspoons baking soda

8 waxed paper circles, traced around a lid and cut out.

8 pint size wide mouth jars with lids and rings

Cream together sugar and shortning. Beat in eggs, pumpkin and water. Set aside. Sift together dry ingredients. Add to pumpkin mixture and stir well. Stir in nuts. Pour batter into greased canning jars. I use Crisco, but you can use lard. Fill each jar half full. Place filled jars on a cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated oven at 325 for about 45 minutes. Remove jars from oven and cover immediately with waxed paper circle. Close jars with lids and rings tightly and turn jars upside down on a towel to cool. Will keep indefinitely in jars. Can be served warm or cold with whipped cream. Makes 8 pints. (note: must use wide mouth canning jars and name brand canning jars.)

Gail Grundl, Kiel, Wisconsin

-- Cindy in KY (solidrockranch@msn.com), October 13, 2001.

Response to Recipe from a 1996 Issue of Countryside

Why the waxed paper circle??

-- Sharon/WI (pinnow@inwave.com), October 13, 2001.

Found another, similar recipe, made to be "canned" in a crock pot, but I think the oven method would work just fine, too. The recipe along with lots of other cake in a jar recipies, and mixes for jars is at http://members.tripod.com/~MaryMae/jarlinks.htm Thanks for posting the one from the magazine, Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), October 13, 2001.