Pumpkin Apple Bread

3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can pumpkin
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cooking apples, peeled and chopped
3/4 cup chopped pecans
confectioners' sugar (to sprinkle on top)

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Set aside.
In a large bowl, soften pumpkin with back of a wooden spoon. Mix in oil and blend well. Mix in sugar. Add eggs, a little at a time, stirring until combined.
Add flour mixture to wet ingredients slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon to blend well. Fold in apples and pecans.
Divide batter between two buttered and floured loaf pans. Bake in preheated 350° F oven for 50 - 60 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
Cool in pans for 30 minutes. Remove, and let cool completely on wire racks.

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