Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin Mash
Cut pie pumpkin in half. Remove seeds and fibers. Bake cut side up, covered with foil about 50 min to an hour or until it is very soft at 350-375F. Remove pumpkin, scoop out pumpkin flesh and mash. You can freeze it.


Pumpkin Cookies
½ cup butter or margarine 3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup molasses 1 egg
1 cup pumpkin mash 2 cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg ½ cup raisins or chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350F. In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar. Add the molasses and egg, and beat well. Beat in pumpkin mash, set aside.
2. In separate bowl, mix the flour baking soda, baking powder, and spices.
3. Stir pumpkin mixture into the flour mixture until combined. Them mix in raisins or chocolate chips.
4. Drop batter by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet, spacing the cookies at least 1in apart. Bake 10min or until the cookies spring back when lightly pressed.
Makes 45 mini pumpkin cookies


Pumpkin Seed Soap
what you need: 4oz bar of glycerin soap 2 Tbs coarsely chopped pumpkin seeds
Empty coffee can muffin tin
1. Place soap in coffee can and set in a saucepan of water.
2. Bring water to boil, continue until soap melts.
3. Stir in seeds. Then pour melted soap into molds covered with aluminum foil.
4. Once hardened, the pumpkin soap is ready for scrubbing.
Makes 4 mini bars of soap



Hearty, Hot, Homemade Pumpkin Soup
1 medium pumpkin 4 cups chicken broth
1/4 cup maple syrup 1Tbs. butter
½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp salt
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Slice pumpkin in half and scoop out seeds. Bake covered with foil about an hour or until it is very soft at 350-375F. Remove pumpkin, scoop out the pumpkin flesh and mash.
2. In pan combine pumpkin with rest of ingredients. Warm over low heat. Stirring occasionally.
Serves 6 to 8

*Hollow out a pumpkin and use it as a soup serving bowl


Pumpkin Pancakes
2 cups flour 1 Tbs baking powder
½ tps salt 2 eggs
1 1/3 cups milk 3 Tbs oil or melted butter plus 1 Tbs for frying
½ pumpkin mash
1. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and pumpkin spice in a bowl.
2. Whisk eggs and milk in separate bowl. Whisk in butter and pumpkin mash. Pour over dry ingredients and stir, do not beat- it’s okay if batter if lumpy.
3. Melt 1Tbs butter in a griddle or skillet, over medium heat. Then drop 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake.
4. Cook until pancakes bubble on the top and light brown on bottom. Flip: then cook until light brown.
Makes 20 pancakes.


Pumpkin Patch Muffins
1 cup pumpkin mash ½ cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup melted butter 2 eggs
3/4 cup milk 2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt
1. Preheat oven to 375F. In a large bowl mix the pumpkin mash, brown sugar, melted butter, and eggs. Then add milk.
2. In a separate bowl, sift flour with the baking powder and salt.
3. Add dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and stir or blend until just combined.
4. Spoon the batter into muffin tin. Bake about 17-20 min.
Makes 12 muffins
Variations: add ½ cup chocolate chips or ½ cup raisins or ½ tsp cinnamon & 1/4 tsp nutmeg.


Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie
Crust:
1 ½ cups crushed graham crackers 6 Tbs butter melted
Filling:
1 quart vanilla ice cream 1 cup pumpkin mash
1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger 1/4 tsp nutmeg
1. To make crust, mix the crushed graham crackers with melted butter. Press into bottom and sides of pie plate.
2. Scoop ice cream into large mixing bowl and let it get almost soupy. Add the pumpkin mash, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Stir well.
3. Spoon the ice cream into the prepared crust. Cover and place in freezer for several hours.
Serves 8 to 10


Tasty Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
1 pumpkin 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt
1. Preheat oven to 300F. Scoop seeds out into a large bowl.
2. Separate seeds from pumpkin fiber. Rinse seeds off.
3. In a bowl, place rinsed seeds and drizzle with oil and sprinkle with salt. Toss well.
4. Spread seeds out on a cookie sheet. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until slightly brown and crisp.


Pumpkin Cornbread
1 cup flour 1 cup cornmeal
2 tsp baking powder ½ teaspoon salt
1 egg 3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup honey 2 tablespoons butter
½ cup pumpkin mash
1. Preheat oven to 425F. Butter and 8in square pan.
2. Mix the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
3. Whisk egg, milk, and honey in a separate bowl. Whisk in melted butter; add the pumpkin mash. Pour over dry ingredients and stir, but do not beat.
4. Spread the batter into the pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cut into squares.
Serves 6 to 8.