If It's October or November, the Bread Must Be Pumpkin

We have cans and cans of pumpkin in the larder

Always bought on sale during November!

For in October and November

we adore pumpkin bread

Always made two loaves at a time

It's false economy to make only one!

Sometimes both to be eaten by us,

othertimes, a loaf makes a great gift

And the ones, we keep

A slice makes the perfect afternoon tea nosh

Tea, a slice of pumpkin bread and a good cookbook

What better way to spend an hour or so in the afternoon?

It's an old pumpkin bread recipe

Perhaps it was my mother's or even my grandmother's

Pumpkin, flour, sugar, spices, leavening, eggs and oil

No raisins, no nuts, no streusel

Just plain old pumpkin bread

And isn't that the best kind?