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thewalnut

"My heart's down in a diamond mine."

Nov 05, 2007 11:26

Yesterday I had these grand plans where I'd sleep late, get up and clean and run and then bake a pumpkin pie from scratch before heading to Jack's for dinner and football, including what I believed would be victories for the Eagles and the Colts ( Read more... )

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bethgirl November 5 2007, 20:07:10 UTC

I'm impressed. Doing anything pumpkin from scratch - (without a can) has always intimidated me. So, damn. I'm impressed!

thewalnut November 5 2007, 20:47:08 UTC

The pumpkin part was actually not bad at all. Just had to cut it in half, scoop out the seeds and then bake it for an hour or so... scoop it, strain it (which would've been a lot easier had I had a bigger strainer) and then cool it down.... I'm glad I did it... though it probably got my pie making urges out of me.

bethgirl November 6 2007, 03:28:43 UTC

hmm. what size pumpkin?

thewalnut November 6 2007, 15:52:57 UTC

It was about four pounds... and yields a good two cups of pumpkin cooked...

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thewalnut November 6 2007, 16:23:22 UTC

The filling was from this recipe (because I have a 10-inch pie pan)... I added a little extra pinch of all the spices, and I sort of did my own thing with roasting the pumpkin. I took out all the seeds and most of the stem and tops before roasting it and put a little bit of water in the pan with it... all at 400 degrees for about an hour... and my crust was taken from the New York Times' site (just your basic butter, flour, salt, water, plus a tiny bit of shortening). Martha didn't talk about draining the pumpkin puree, but I think it's pretty essential. I put the cooked pumpkin in my cuisinart and then put it through a strainer... and then let it cool... and poured out even a bit more water from the top before mixing it with the rest of the filling ingredients.

maystone November 6 2007, 00:44:56 UTC

I'm trying to envision the tree decorations, but I'm failing. It was a cookie cutter shape? I apologize for getting so hung up on this, but for some reason it's really captured my imagination. Pine tree? Elm? In full leaf or naked branches? You can see my quandary.

I've never cooked the pumpkin for a pie, but I have stuffed one with legumes, cheese, and sausage and baked that. Very yummy indeed.

I'm glad that you're mostly fine :)

thewalnut November 6 2007, 16:37:49 UTC

Small little trees.... just vague cookie cutter shaped, kinda like this. I put them around the edge horizontally... so the trunk of the tree overlapped with the top of the next one...