A delicious bread recipe using two of New Englands favorite fall harvest ingredients.
Makes one (1) loaf.

Apple Cider and Pumpkin Bread Recipe Ingredients:

• 1 cup freshly pressed and blended New England apple cider
• 1/4 cup fresh made or canned apple sauce
• 1 cup canned pumpkin purée or fresh from your garden pumpkin patch
• 2 large fresh eggs from the chicken coop
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated orange zest or orange peel granules
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons fresh double-acting baking powder (Check expiration Date)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt or try sea salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
• 1/2 cup freshly chopped walnuts
  
  
• one 8-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch loaf pan

Check inside your oven for visiting ghosts and goblins, then preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a stainless steel saucepan, boil down the apple cider until it is reduced to about 1/4 cup and let it cool. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together well the pumpkin purée, apple sauce, eggs, oil, brown sugar, zest, and the reduced apple cider. Into the bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, mace, cinnamon, and the ground cloves. Add the chopped walnuts, and stir the batter until it is just combined.

Transfer the batter to a well-buttered 8-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch loaf pan and bake the bread in the middle of your preheated 350°F. oven for 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Let the bread cool in the pan on cooling racks.

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