Pumpkin Cake or Bread

This recipe is from one of the Kansas City Kansan Silver Spoon Cookbook...
It was in the category of Special occasions...

For Thanksgiving

Pumpkin Cake or Bread
Mrs. James Blaise

1 cup brown sugar
1 stick margarine
2 eggs
1 cup cooked pumpkin( can use canned pumpkin)
1/4 cup molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger

Cream sugar and margarine. Add eggs and beat ingredients well. Add rest of the ingredients, mixing well. Bake in a greased 13 x 9-inch cake pan or for bread in a loaf pan in 350 degree oven until done. Bread takes 45 to 55 minutes. Cake takes 10 minutes less.

ICING

3 Tablespoon Butter or margarine
1 cup confectioners sugar
lemon juice

Mix sugar and margarine and add enough lemon juice so to make it easier  to spread. Cake or bread may be mixed the night before and baked the next morning for breakfast.