Banana Pumpkin Bread

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4 ripe bananas (2.5c mashed)

1 pie pumpkin, roasted (yielded 3c mashed)

2 cup sugar

2/3 cup melted butter

4 eggs

4 cups plain flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

3 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp clove

1 tsp nutmeg

1 cup pecans, roughly chopped

2 pinches of salt (which I forgot to add so I added a couple grains to each mini loaf a couple minutes after popping them into the oven and stirred it in... let's hope for the best)

7 greased mini loaf pans (I tried out Baker's Joy for "greasing")

Preheat the oven to 300F.

Follow pumpkin puree recipe from October 2014. And allow to cool completely. (Brian prepared this two days before and put in the refrigerator.)

Combine the pumpkin and mashed bananas until homogeneous.

In a separate large bowl, combine the sugar, butter, and eggs, and stir until well mixed.

Add the fruit and vegetable mixture to the sugar, butter, egg mixture and mix well.

In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, spices, and salt).

Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients while constantly stirring.

At this point, the bread batter seemed to be somewhere between cake batter consistency and dough. I hope that's right!

I transferred a heaping cup of the mixture to 3 of the loaf pans and kept adding until there was about 1.5 centimeters of room to the top of the pan.

Then I added the chopped nuts to the remaining mixture and stirred.

I then repeated the same process into 3 new loaf pans, but then I had extra for a 4th, so I just filled that one up too.

It took 54 minutes in the oven to bake. (I checked in at 30 mins, 40 mins, 44 mins, 48 mins, 50 mins, one loaf passed the wooden toothpick test so I took them all out, but another one was a little wet, so I put them all back in and checked 4 minutes later at 54 mins). So it wasn't in a closed oven for 54 minutes straight, just FYI.

As for the verdict... it'll have to wait. These are Christmas presents for various people. Regardless of how successful they are, I'll be making a second batch this upcoming weekend for a second wave of Christmas presents. If I'm lucky, there will be an extra that I can have myself.