4 c  All-purpose flour                   4    Eggs
     1 ts Baking powder                     1/2 c  Sourdough starter
 1 1/2 ts Baking soda                       2/3 c  Water
 1 1/2 ts Salt                                1 c  Vegetable oil
     2 tb Pumpkin pie spice                   2 c  Canned pumpkin
 1 1/2 c  Granulated sugar                1 1/2 c  Prepared mincemeat
 (48 min left), (H)elp, More?   1 1/2 c  Packed brown sugar 1 c Chopped
 walnuts or pecans
 Grease three 9 x 5 or five 7-1/2 x 4 loaf pans, set aside.  Preheat
 over to 350.  In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder,
 baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, granulated sugar and brown
 sugar; set aside. In a medium bowl, beat eggs.  Stir in sourdough
 starter, water, oil and pumpkin. Pour all at once into flour mixture.
 Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.  Stir in mincemeat and
 nuts.  Pour evenly into prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven 1 hour
 or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Turn out
 of pans.  Cool top side up on a rack. Wrap each cooled loaf in
 plastic wrap or foil as a gift or to freeze. Thaw wrapped frozen
 loaves at room temperature 2 hours.  Makes 3 large loaves or 5 medium
 loaves.                 
                 Yields       
                60 servings