Pumpkin Bread

½ cup sugar ½ cup vegetable oil ½ cup ¾ cup pumpkin puree 2 eggs 1½ cup unbleached flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon salt

In a large bowl, beat together sugar, oil, pumpkin and eggs. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, soda, cinnamon, and salt. Fold this into the pumpkin mixture, stirring to moisten the dry ingredients. Pour batter into a grease pan 9" X 5" X 3" loaf pan. Bake bread in a preheated 350 degree oven for an hour (or until a tester comes out dry. Set the pan on a rack for 10 minutes and turn out the loaf to cool completely.