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In honor of Autumn, please enter a recipe which uses pumpkin. Thank you very much.
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PUMPKIN PUDDING
1 1/2 lbs fresh pumpkin 1/2 teaspoon each ground ginger, cloves,
and nutmeg
4 eggs, separated 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup light cream 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 to 4 tbs rum 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
Whipped cream
1. Remove seeds and peel from pumpkin and cut pumpkin into small pieces.
Cook in boiling water until tender. Drain and mash thoroughly. Cool
slightly.
2. Preheat oven to 350.
3. Beat egg whites until stiff (the egg whites, not you).
4. Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Combine yolks with
pumpkin puree'. cream, rum, brown sugar, and seasonings. Mix thoroughly.
Fold in beaten egg whites.
5. Place mixture in buttered one-quart souffle' dish and bake 40 to 45 min.
Serve at once with sweetened, flavored whipped cream.
From _The New York Times Cook Book_, edited by Craig Claiborne
That sounds really good! Here's one of my all time favorite recipes in the universe. You can also dredge this out of Grex's recipe archives. Join the kitchen conference and type "recipe". Mrs. Dugan's Harvest Loaf Cake (aka Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread) _The Detroit News_, November 22, 1971 (modified since then) 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 3 1/2 cups flour, sifted 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon (dry, ground) ginger 1/2 teaspoon cloves 2 cups (one 16 ounce can) canned or fresh pumpkin 2 cups (one 12 ounce bag) semi-sweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Beat well. Stir in baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Stir in flour and pumpkin, possibly adding each in small glunks and stirring after each addition. Fold in chocolate chips. Grease bottoms of two loaf pans. Turn batter into pan. Bake for one hour and five minutes or until a knife inserted comes out without batter on it. It is suggested to bake at 300-325 degrees for a few minutes longer. Keep close watch; do not overbake.
This is now linked from agora item 2 to kitchen item 85.
The only redeemable quality pumpkins have is that they're fun to blow up with M-80s.
pumpkin recipes remind me of halloween, so here's an impromptu halloween recipe that i have not yet tried (and i just missed the full moon): 1 really large pumpkin (mainly for justification of this post) 7 fairly old dried bat wings (vegans substitute ?) a pinch of deadly nightshade a black cat (not to cook, just for luck) 3 grams - eye of newt 6 drops - blood of a virgin (gender not important) 1 bagel loaded with cream cheese over a roaring flame, mix bat wings, nightshade, e.o.n., and blood in 20 gallons murky water in a large cauldron. chant assorted gibberish of you own design to flavour (this must be done at midnight under a full moon). carve pumpkin, pet cat, eat bagel.
Not PC. Bats are harmless and beneficial, and should not be expected to sacrifice their wings for a silly human fete; newts and other amphibian populations, possibly because of the ozone hole and surely because of pollution of the environment; virgins...well, I'm pro choice. The other ingredients are OK, but you'll have the find substitutes for bat wings, newts, and virgin blood. I recommend tofu.
For this recipe I wouldn't waste the tofu. You could use plastic bat and newt parts and I think the bagel would be just as good. btw: You'll want to keep the cat and the cream cheese separate during this process.
I have a "recipe" for "electronic pumpkin:" If you e-mail me a request, I'll send you a uuencoded file that is a compiled basic program that runs on a PC under DOS that displays a nice big pumpkin and plays "In the Hall of the Mountain King." :-)
_Pumpkin Surprise_ Requires: 1 - Large (ripe) Pumpkin 1 - Tall building 1 - Unsuspecting crowd Directions: Should be self evident.....
Argh!
Well, you asked for it!
*I* did?
*** Spicy Autumn Harvest Soup *** Adapted from: _High Fit Low Fat_, Medsport's Cookbook * 1 medium onion, chopped * 1 tsp. olive oil * 2 cloves of garlic, minced * 1/2 tsp. curry powder * 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon * 1/4 tsp. minced fresh ginger * 1/4 tsp. ground coriander * 1/4 tsp. ground cumin * 1/8 tsp. ground tumeric * 1 cup apple cider or juice * 1 medium pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and chunked * 2 large cooking apples, peeled, seeded and chunked * 3 cups defatted chicken stock * 1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt * 1/4 cup sliced almonds, slightly roasted In a 5 quart heavy saucepan saute the onions in the olive oil until wilted, add the garlic and spices, stir well. Add the remaining ingredients up to the yogurt and bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 2 to 3 hours until the apples and squash are very tender. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature then puree until silky smooth using a food processor or hand blender. Reheat. Add a dollop of yogurt to top each serving and sprinkle with toasted almonds. Makes eight 1-cup servings. Calories: 130 per serving, 21% from fat.
And boy was it yummy!
Wait a minute...that recipe didn't have any bat wings in it...what am I going to do with this jar of bat wings?
Aarrgghh!
I have this great place you can get Kentuky Fried Bat.
Hopefully by now Rane has forgotten this item.
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Nice bats! Grex now has ascii bats flying around in its memory.
Hey -- we could take up a collection to buy Grex a bellfrey!
Why would we need a bellfrey for grex? I didn't think .BAT files would run under UNIX.
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re: 22 <groan> :) re: 23 nice bellfrey, Steve!
No self-respecting bat would be found in a bellfrey, but one can find them sometimes in belfries.
Thanks, Bill. It's modeled after the McGraw Tower on the campus of Cornell. It's one of the prettiest belfries I know. The ascii version is a little austere for my tastes, though. On Hallowe'en at midnight the bells chime 13 times from that belfrey, I'm told. I don't think it has any bats in real life, though.:wq
(belfry)
Oops, I knew that. You'd think after all the other misspellings that I'd take extra care to get it right. Thanks.
Bellfree bellfrey bellfry bellfrie belfree belfree belfrey belfry belfrie ...did I get them all?
Obviously you're no Southerner. Bayuhlfree.
McGraw Tower has no bats. But, they do play music on the carrilon(?) daily when most people are walking to classes. Unfortunately, some of the notes are out of tune. I'm told that watching them play the bells is a unique experience. They use all four extremities at once, or so the rumor has it. I never got to see them in action. Oops! My Oxford English says it's "carillon".
Are you sure its "out of tune", or is it perhaps a modal scale, which would sound out of tune to those accustomed to the diatonic?
It's likely to be diatonic. There are other things that could be distorting the sound (shape of the chamber, etc. ad nauseum), but it's by no means inconceivable that something like that is out of tune. How old is this one, Bret? (Where is it again?) I've never had my extremities on a carillon's ... um, it's not a *keyboard*, but I don't recall what it is - console? ... but I think I recall that novices are usually surprised at the amount of effort involved. They go in there thinking of a piano or organ keyboard, only to find that you really have to push or swat (or something like that) those babies to get any sound out of it.
I'd like to see a carillon tuner's tool kit.
At Iowa State, which also has a carillon, I once was invited to make the trek to the top of the tower (medieval type tower with creepy narrow steps curling their way around the inside walls). Got to to meet the carillonier and see him play. That carillon is played by pounding one's fists on wooden levers (and stomping on foot pedals). They recently renovated the bells. I believe they used standard tools (pliers, hammers, etc.) to remove and install, although I could be wrong.
I once got to go up to the carrilon here at the U. It was really cool to be able to stand *inside* some of the bells. Would've liked to see someone play (preferably not when I was in a bell), but they'd just finished a concert and didn't seem likely to perform again right away.
But Kent, that's not *tuning*. I wonder if they just file a little off here & there to make it go sharper? If so, that may just about guarantee that it will stay out of tune if you go too far.
I did get to see the carillon at U of M, during the noon playing.
It was part of my Assembler class at U of M. (Don't ask.) The
main thing, well there are two things I remember vividly:
(1) Looking out from the tower, you can clearly see
that Ann Arbor is in a valley, with the ground going up on
all sides. (Except the southwest, where the Huron
River leaves the valley.) It was so weird seeing the
ground go up in every direction.
(2) IT WAS LOUD!!!
I believe McGraw Tower was constructed in the 1860's. I cannot tell diatonic vs modal (not being a music theorist), but when they played popular songs on the bells, certain notes just were not hit properly. I believe that they lack a bell for every single note and play one that is the nearest half-step to the one they are missing (VERY jarring to those of us with absolute pitch...). At least, that was what it sounded like to me. On Cornell's campus, the bell tower is strategically placed to look over the campus, too. You also get a great view of Cayuga Lake. You also get a great exposure to the breeze up the hill - brrrrrrr!
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