Granny's Sweet Potato Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar 
• 1 teaspoon butter 
• 0.5 cup canola oil 
• 2  eggs 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 0.5 cup pecans chopped
• 1.7 cups self-rising flour sifted
• 1  sweet potatoes and into 
• 0.3 cup water 
• 1.3 cups sugar white

Equipment

• bowl
• sauce pan
• oven
• whisk
• loaf pan
• toothpicks
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Wrap sweet potato in aluminum foil.
2. Bake sweet potato in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork, about 1 hour. Set aside to cool.
3. Whisk white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl.
4. Add eggs; mix well. Sift flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg into sugar mixture. Slowly whisk water into flour-sugar mixture until incorporated.
5. Peel sweet potato; mash into the batter. Fold in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
6. Reduce oven temperature to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Spray a 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
7. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
8. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour.
9. Heat brown sugar and butter in a small saucepan over low heat until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes.
10. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans and stir to combine.
11. Remove from heat.
12. Pour glaze over bread.