Sweet Potato Quick Bread

[Kathy]

Sweet Potato Quick Bread

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon mace or ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup applesauce
2 tablespoons milk
1 cup cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup chopped pecans or nuts of choice
1/2 cup chopped dates or raisins

PREPARATION:

Grease bottom of a loaf pan approximately 9- x 5- x 3-inches.
Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and spices in mixing bowl.
With a large spoon, stir in sugar, eggs, applesauce and milk; stir to moisten all ingredients.
Stir in mashed sweet potatoes, pecans and dates or raisins.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake at 325° for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan on a rack for 15 minutes.
Remove from pan and continue cooling on wire rack.

[kitaye]

Can you use a winter squash in place of the sweet potatoes?

[Kathy]

I've never tried it kitaye; but I interchange winter squash with sweet potatoes in pie and in a sw. potato casserole recipe; so I'd think it would work. As long as the squash is of a similar consistency & not watery; I'd be adventurous and give it a try!

Down here in TN I had to find recipes using sweet potatoes instead of squash. Sweet potatoes are so cheap-5#/$1 and winter squash is 69cents+/#; so now I'm using more sweet potatoes!!
Those prices are just the opposite of what I was paying in the northern states!

[dlangland]

Pumpkin might work, also, but there are already very many pumpkin bread recipes. Deb

[kitaye]

We bought buttercup squash seeds and hope to have a bunch available for food. The meat is a smilar consistancy to sweet potatoe pie but not as sweet.