this is my new favorite recipe. honestly, I’ve never eaten a better bread. yum!
Pumpkin Sammy
if you don’t have a bread machine, check this out: it’s absolutely easy and possible to make this bread without one.
you can make pumpkin buns or pumpkin bagels too.
play around with various flours: I’ve already made it with 2 cups bread flour and 1 cup whole wheat, 1 cup kamut flour and 2 cups white whole wheat…it always comes out delicious.

1 1/2 pound recipe for your bread machine

3/4 cup canned pumpkin [PURE pumpkin, not pie mix]
2/3 cup pure water at room temp OR rice/soy milk, warmed up if stored in fridge
1 T margarine
3 cups white whole wheat flour
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
4 t vital wheat gluten (I didn't use this)
1 1/2 t sea salt (I just used plain salt)
1 3/4 t active dry yeast OR bread machine yeast

place all ingredients in your machine following manufacturer’s instructions.
flours must be spooned into dry ingredients measuring cups, and leveled with a knife.
use “BASIC” cycle. once cycle is over, remove from pan and let cool on a rack.

recipe adapted from “Betty Crocker’s Bread Machine Cookbook”