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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 30 2006 : 1:26:02 PM
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found this in my Red-Flannel Hash and Shoo Fly Pie book .. thought it would be fun to share with you:
"As trade brought more foods and food delicacies to New England ... raisins, spices, and wines from Europe; wheat from the Hudson River valley; molasses frm the West Indies; loaf sugar and later ganulated sugar from New Orleans . new desserts that were a blend of traditional English dishes and of New England's regional resources came into being.
PUMPKIN PIE, for example, was strictly and American invention. While the English had long been making pastry for meat pies and the American Indians had long been stewng pumpkin, it took the New England colonist to ocmbine the English pastry and the American pumpkin and come up with something that was entiredly different frm either.
To the mashed stewed pumpkin the colonists added milk,eggs, spices, and molasses. t he mixture was then turned into a pastry shel land baked until the filling was firm but creamy and the pie crust crisp and golden. In preparing their pumpkin-pie filling the New Englanders were following a basic Englisgh custard recipe in the use of milk and eggs. Lacking sugars, however, they added a sweet touch of their own, molasses. Molasses for pumpkin pie was, in fact, so important in colonial days that on several occasions a New England townp ut off its Thanksgiving celebration a week or more while awaiting a shipment of molasses frm the West Indies."
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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the origins of PUMPKIN PIE
