Ack!! My pumpkin bread is still funky!

[toyland444]

O.K. all you die hard bakers....what can I do now??

I bought a glass bread pan to see what I can do about the sides rising:

http://www.justlabradors.com/forum/i...c,27219.0.html

I used three pans, as usual, and I also turned down the heat to 300 degrees rather than 350 degrees.

I placed them on the oven rack with equal distance between the pans, three pans in all with the glass pan in the middle.

Well, one of the corners in the glass pans (right rear corner) rose the highest.....by a noticeable difference. The left pans right side rose higher. The right pans left side rose higher.... : ???

Now, I going to use three aluminum foil pans, spaced a little closer together with the temp of 325 and see what that does......sheesh.

Any other ideas to solve this quandry??

Toyland

[MyLabsMom]

How old is your oven?

[imported_zoezoe]

I baked two of them at once with no problem. Both were in tin pans.

So you are saying the middle is caving, basically ... meaning the sides are higher than the center?

Do you have the rack in the middle of the oven? Try baking just two at a time instead of 3 and see what happens. With Brenda's recipe, I had 2 actually bake mine one hour and 10 minutes instead of 50-60. Ovens are different and I was surprised, as mine usually cooks fast.

[toyland444]

Well, I increased the temp from 300 to 325, rotated the pans about half way through the baking time....they turned out better.

However, I didn't mix the bottom of the batter. The top of one is discolored....too much sugar?

In baking 6 loaves, I'm happy with one...sigh.

I've been baking pumpkin bread for 16 years to give out at Christmas time (about 20 loaves)...I'm tired of it.

I think I'll make Frosty's Snow Mix and put them in bags.....no baking required!

p.s. I don't know the age of our oven, we've in this house for 8 years and I'm not sure how long before that time they bought it.


Toyland