Paw Paw Bread

[Raine]

Paw Paw Bread

3 cups granulated sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup oil
4 eggs
2/3 cup water
1 cup paw paws
1 cup sweet potatoes
1 cup nutmeats, chopped

Sift dry ingredients. Mix in water. Add other ingredients; mix well. Bake in oiled pans for 1 hour in 350 degree F oven.

To make pumpkin bread, substitute the paw paws and sweet potatoes for 2 cups of pumpkin. Bread may be frozen for later use.

 

[PA Baker]

I should know this but I don't -- what are paw paws?

 

[Raine]

Try this.

paw paws

 

[bevkile]

Wish I could have had this recipe 50 years ago. We had a paw paw tree growing wild in our woods, in Indiana. We called it our Hoosier banana.

 

[licia]

Is that where "pickin up paw paws, puttin them in the basket" came from? I've never seen them. What do they taste like? What could be substituted?

 

[Chief Longwind Of The North]

Wish we had paw paws around here. I'm dying to try them. I fear though that I'm living just to far North (Canada border, upper peninsula, MI).

Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North