Dear blog,
Not long ago (perhaps a week) I noticed canned pumpkin and condensed milk in the lazy Susan of my landlord's shared kitchen and decided to make some good old pumpkin pie. It gave me an excuse to use the pastry crust recipe I had seen on the Food channel that very morning (mix butter, flour and water, roll out). I checked for all the other ingredients my old Betty Crocker New Cook Book listed; sugar, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, et al. There was no nutmeg, but there was ALLSPICE which said on it, "use in pumpkin pie..." so I used that instead of nutmeg.
The only thing missing; a pie pan. We own nary a pie tin, pan or even so much as an 8 in round baking tray, so I made 12 miniature pumpkin pies in the muffin pan we do have. I used a fairly large cup to cookie cutter the pastry dough into appropriate sized circles to line each muffin mcdivvit.
Et voila, I ate them all. Quite tasty, if only I had whipped cream. I took a picture, but as most of the pictures I take, it will sit lonely on my camera for a requisite aging period of some months.
I am proud of the experience. Because I google searched pumpkin pie muffins; and every single recipe I found, did not use pastry dough, but used paper muffin cups! LAZY SUSANS, THE LOT OF YE!!
Vivian described the pastries to her frat siblings, who all agreed that twice the quantity should be donated to their bake sale. I get brownie points for helping Vivian get "philanthropy hours" We discover the morning after that a total of 4 people had offered to bring baked goods. Perhaps we should have octupled the recipe.
I made a pumpkin pie loaf each time with extra filling. "At last, a luscious grape."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPkY
Sincerely,
-Ian Hogan
Monday, October 25, 2010
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