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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: hammond@odin.scd.ucar.edu (Steve Hammond)
- Subject: Pumpkin Pie
- Message-ID: <1993Oct14.194340.15218@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Organization: NCAR/UCAR
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 19:43:40 GMT
- Approved: arielle@taronga.com
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- >From: richman@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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- Having just watched 40 lbs of pumpkin get stewed down to 32 cups of
- puree, enjoying a homemade pumpkin pie, and watching a pumpkin
- cheesecake bake in the oven (yet uneaten), can I interest anyone in
- trading pumpkin recipes? I'll start off with one pumpkin pie slightly
- altered from The Little House Cookbook:
-
- Homemade Pumpkin Pie
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- Ingredients:
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- 2 cups stewed pumpkin (slightly drier consistency than applesauce)
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/4 cups of whole milk or half-and-half
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
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- 9 inch pie pan filled with your favorite crust
- (We usually cheat and use Pillsbury All-Ready)
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- Preparation:
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- Cut pumpkin into slices 2 inches thick and pare off the skin. Dice the
- skinned pumpkin into 2 inch cubes, add to a skillet, and add enough
- water to steam. For a 10 pound pumpkin in a 12 inch skillet, we used 1
- cup of water. Cover the skillet and steam on a medium heat for several
- hours. Keep an eye on the amount of water remaining and when it
- becomes soft mash it down. Remove the cover from skillet and then when
- it reaches the texture of applesauce, let it dry out another 10 minutes
- on a low heat. Measure out 2 cups and put into a bowl. Add 2 T butter
- to warm pumpkin puree and let it melt.
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- Preheat oven to 425 degrees (F).
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- In another bowl, beat the eggs well and beat in brown sugar, milk,
- salt, pepper, maple syrup, spices and finally the pumpkin mixture.
- Pour this into the pie shell and place in center oven rack at 425
- degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue to
- bake until the custard is firm. This should take a total of forty
- minutes in all. Cool and serve.
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