Pumpkin Bread

5 cups flour

4 cups sugar

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

4 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1 large can pumpkin

2 cups nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together vegetable oil, sugar, and eggs. In another bowl, mix together flour and baking soda. Add flour and pumpkin alternately to the egg mixture. Add nuts. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour.

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Apple Bread

3 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 1/4 cups oil

2 apples, chopped

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients until well blended. Pour batter into 2 greased loaf pans. Bake for about 1 hour.

Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom who is the author of What's for Dinner?, an e-cookbook containing more than 250 quick easy dinner ideas. For more recipes, organizing tips, home decorating, crafts, holiday hints, and more, visit Creative Homemaking at http://www.creativehomemaking.com.