Eating Maine History: Brown Sugar Pumpkin Bread

What do you get when you combine a dash of museum educator and a dollop of fun, with newly discovered old cookbooks from the collections?

Welcome to Eating Maine History, a cooking show where we dive into the Maine State Museum’s collections to bring you the old, weird, and maybe even tasty foods of Maine’s past!

This episode’s recipe is Brown Sugar Pumpkin Bread, from the mid- 1900’s found in the Cooking Favorites of Pleasant Valley Grange out of West Bethel, Maine. This bread features pureed pumpkin, brown sugar, and warm spices. This episode’s chef is Joanna Torow. Joanna loves cooking but isn’t much of a baker. Let’s see how she does with a recipe that “never fails,” at least according to recipe contributor Marie Witter.

Watch the video below to learn more!