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Carrot Bread

One of Brownie Schrumpf’s recipes.  She wrote a food column for the Bangor Daily News, wrote two cookbooks, taught courses at the University of Maine when I was a student there.  She lived well into her nineties, and has a kitchen dedicated to her at the Page Farm and Home Museum on campus.
- Jeanne "Grammy"


INGREDIENTS

  • ¾ cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1½ cups sifted flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup grated raw carrot (about 3 large carrots)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup chopped nut meats
  • 2 eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix sugar and oil.  Sift dry ingredients and combine with oil mixture.  Add grated carrots (firmly packed in a cup to measure).  Mix in nut meats and vanilla.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Bake in a greased bread loaf pan in a moderate oven (350°) for 50 minutes or until baked.