Papaya Bread

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup mashed papaya
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1 tsp baking soda

Cream sugar, butter until light; add eggs and beat until fluffy. Add papaya, nuts and raisins. Mix. Sift dry ingredients together and add to mixture. Pour into a paper-lined loaf pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes.

This may also be baked in muffin pan. Reduce baking time to 25 minutes.

Yield: 1 loaf

NOTE: This was published in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald as one of the dessert recipes served by Island Holidays at their resort hotels. If you missed it, here it is for you to try and enjoy.

CLASS OF 1947