PUMPKIN BREAD

3 cups flour

2 tea. baking powder

1 tea. baking soda

1 tea. ground cinnamon

1/2 tea. ground ginger

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup shortening

2 large eggs

16 oz. solid packed pumpkin (not pie mix)

1 cup pitted prunes, chopped

1 cup walnuts

Grease 9 X 5" loaf pan. In medium bowl, with spoon, mix first 5 ingredients. In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat brown sugar, sugar, shortening, eggs, and pumpkin until blended; with spoon, stir in flour mixture until flour is moistened. Stir in prunes and 1/2 cup walnuts. Spoon batter evenly into pan. Top with remaining nuts. Bake 1 1/4 hours at 350' or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. If top of loaf browns too quickly, loosely cover with foil during last 30 min. of baking time. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 min. remove from pan; finish cooling on rack.