Pumpkin Recipes

[kelliem]

dinahmt asked for my recipe for Pumpkin Nut Bread so here it is. Just for fun, I'm also posting my pumpkin pie recipe. It's a little different. :) Oh, and note that the 'coriander' mentioned is the ground seed kind, not the green leafy kind also known as cilantro, which would be supremely icky in baked goods.

ETA: I just noticed that the sugar got left out of the pumpkin bread recipe! Ack! It's in now.


Pumpkin Nut Bread

2 C pumpkin (1 16-oz. can)
¾ C. oil
¾ C. each, white and brown sugar
4 eggs
⅔ C water
3⅓ C flour
2 tsp soda
1½ tsp salt
1 tsp each: cinnamon & ginger
½ tsp each: nutmeg, clove, coriander
1 C. coarsely chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 375, and grease 3 loaf pans. (Or 2 loaf pans and 1 6-count 'large' muffin tin.)

Mix pumpkin, oil, eggs and water. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients and mix well. Add dry and moist ingredients and beat by hand until well blended. Portion evenly into greased pans and bake 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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Maple Pumpkin Pie

2 C. prepared pumpkin
2 eggs
2 Tbsp flour
⅔ C. maple syrup
⅓ C. brown sugar
1 C. half & half (or cream or evaporated milk)
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg & ginger
¼ tsp allspice, coriander,clove & salt
1 unbaked pie crust
(your favorite recipe, or Pillsbury Ready-crusts are pretty good)

Preheat oven to 425 F.

Combine all ingredients well, pour into pie crust, bake 45-50 minutes. Pie is done when a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

Comments

[theamusedone.livejournal.com]

These both look really interesting, I've never baked with coriander before, I think I may have to try them out! Thank you for posting these.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I love coriander, it's my favorite baking spice, I put it in nearly everything. :)

BTW, I just noticed that the sugar got left out of the pumpkin bread recipe! Ack! It's in now.

[theamusedone.livejournal.com]

I use it in a lot of my cooking, just have never thought to bake with it! What else do you love it in?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I usually add coriander to anything that calls for cinnamon, I like the way the two spices augment each other. It's also great in fruit pies of all sorts (as well as cobblers and crisps). I also have been known to put it in pound cake.