Silver Dollar City Opens New Cooking /Craft School

Last Friday, my friend Vicky and I attended a cooking class at the new Culinary and Craft School at Silver Dollar City. The school is in a beautiful "turn-of-the-century Midwestern farmhouse". The kitchen has state-of-the-art appliances and includes flat-screened TV's for overhead viewing of the cooking/ craft demonstrations. (For information on more cooking/craft classes, go to http://www.sdcculinarycraftschool.com/ .) The instructor provided cooking tips and demonstrated how to make Pumpkin Bread and Apple Salad. We got to taste both recipes....yum! Here's the Pumpkin Bread recipe ...enjoy!

Pumpkin Bread

1 1/2 cups of vegetable oil
5 eggs
2 cups of pumpkin (one can)
2 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
2 (3 oz.) packages of instant coconut pie filling
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix oil, eggs, and pumpkin. Combine all dry ingredients, add to pumpkin mixture. Mix well. Bake in 2 greased and floured glass loaf pans at 325 degrees for 1 hour, or until toothpick comes out clean.

recipe by Betty Dance Uhrig (SDC Culinary School instructor)