Golden Harvest Bread (Bread Machine)
Why I Love This Recipe
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This lovely golden bread is made using Pumpkin but butternut, sweet
potato, or any hard cooked squash can be used. Canned or fresh
cooked. It's very lightly flavored with cinnamon and ginger.
Receiving it's beautiful golden color from the squash, the saffron
and turmeric. You can use saffron and or turmeric.
Ingredients You'll Need
3/4 cup cooked pumpkin
1 cup water
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons fast rising yeast
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon saffron
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
Garnish
1 1/2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds (optional)
Glaze
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
Directions
Place the water and pumpkin into the bread machine bowl following with
the rest of the ingredients being sure to keep the salt sugar and
yeast in separate corners.
Set bread machine to dough cycle. Press start. At the dried fruit
cycle, the machine will beep you can add optional seeds.
When cycle is done remove to floured surface punch down and shape
into a round mound then gently press the center inches Cover with
oiled plastic wrap and let rise 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 350
degrees.
Mix egg and turmeric together.
Remove wrap. Slash along sides of bread up and down to form the look
of a pumpkin. Brush with glaze. Place in preheat oven for 35-40
minutes.
