MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Harvest Pumpkin Bread Categories: Quickbreads Yield: 1 Servings 1/2 c Butter or margarine; Softened 1 c Firmly packed brown sugar 2 lg Eggs 2 c All-purpose flour 2 ts Baking powder 1/4 ts Baking soda 1/2 ts Salt 2 ts Pumpkin pie spice 1 c Mashed cooked pumpkin 1/2 c Chopped pecans; toasted 1 ts Vanilla extract MMMMM-----------------PEACHY CREAM CHEESE SPREAD---------------------- 1 pk Cream cheese; (8-ounce) Softened 1/3 c Peach preserves 1/4 ts Ground ginger Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add brown sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add to butter mixture alternately with pumpkin, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed after each addition, just until dry ingredients are moistened. Stir chopped pecans and vanilla into batter. Spoon into a greased 8 1/2 - x 4 1/2-inch loafpan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan, and cool on wire rack. Slice and serve with Peachy Cream Cheese Spread. Makes 1 loaf. Peachy Cream Cheese Spread: Beat all ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer until blended. Makes 1 1/3 cups. Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #39 by "Karen C. Greenlee" on Dec 22, 1998. NOTES : NOTES: MM by Helen Peagram by mc-recipe-digest on Deceay,, mber 22, 199, converted by MM_Buster v2.0j. MMMMM