Autumn Spiced Butternut Squash Bread

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder 
• 2 teaspoons baking soda 
• 2 cups butternut squash pureed cooked
• 4  eggs 
• 3.3 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1.5 teaspoons salt 
• 0.7 cup shortening 
• 0.7 cup water 
• 2.7 cups sugar white

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• wire rack
• loaf pan
• toothpicks

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
2. Beat sugar and shortening together in a bowl until fluffy. Stir butternut squash, eggs, and water into sugar mixture.
3. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in another bowl; stir into sugar mixture.
4. Add nuts and raisins; stir until batter is just blended.
5. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 15 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.