Granny’s Recipe: Cheesy Pumpkin Bread

recipe by Evelyn O’Neal and photo by Kelly Moore Clark

Ingredients:
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2/3 cup water
3 1/3 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1 can pumpkin (large)
1 cup raisins

Cream sugar and eggs. Add oil and water. Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Add pumpkin, nuts and raisins.
Grease and flour (or spray with baking spray) 4 coffee cans or 2 large loaf pans.
Fill 2/3 full. Bake for 1 hour at 325 degrees. May take longer depending on oven.

Cream Cheese Filling:
1 8 oz package cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 cup chopped nuts

Mix well and spread between pumpkin bread slices.