Filed Under (Recipes) by chive on 15-10-2008
INGREDIENTS
- 3 eggs
- 1 (16ounce)can solid-pack pumpkin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 tablespoons sweet sherry
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 cups milk
- 3 cups packed 3/4 inch cubes Italian bread or French bread or sourdough bread
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- heavy cream
DIRECTIONS
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until smooth.
- Whisk in the pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves until well mixed.
- Whisk in the sherry, sugar, and milk until smooth.
- Stir in the bread cubes and nuts.
- Turn the mixture into a 3 1/2-quart electric slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on the high heat setting 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 hours, or until puffed (do not cook on the low heat setting for a longer time).
- Remove the lid and continue cooking on high 20 to 30 minutes longer.
- Serve warm or at room temperature, topped with heavy cream.
Filed Under (Recipes) by cauliflower on 11-08-2008


INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 (14ounce)can pumpkin puree(not pumpkin pie mix)
- 1 egg(beaten)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar and shortening.
- Add pumpkin and egg and mix again.
- In a small mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
- In a condiment bowl or small cup, dissolve baking soda into milk.
- Add baking soda mixture to dry ingredients and blend.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into the wet, add vanilla, and mix well.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Drop by heaping teaspoons onto cookie sheet.
- I line the sheet with parchment paper.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until slightly golden around bottom edges.
- This makes a small batch (I am guessing about 4 dozen) I often double the recipe with no problem!
Filed Under (Recipes) by toothsome on 10-08-2008
INGREDIENTS
- 1 (15ounce)can pumpkin
- 1 cupvegetable oil
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 (12ounce)jarcream cheese frosting (I use the whipped kind)
- candy corn
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 9X13 inch pan.
- In a large bowel mix eggs, oil, pumpkin, and sugar well.
- Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Pour into pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until the middle springs back when touched.
- Let cool, then ice, and add candy corn for decoration.
Filed Under (Recipes) by asparagus on 09-08-2008
INGREDIENTS
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 (14ounce)can pumpkin
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cupwhipped cream or Cool Whip
DIRECTIONS
- Mix graham crumbs, 1/4 cup brown sugar and melted butter together.
- press into a 9″ square cake pan.
- combine pumpkin, the 1/2 cup brown sugar, salt, the one tsp of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a bowl.
- Fold in softened ice cream.
- pour mixture into pan and cover.
- freeze 4-6 hours.
- Remove from freezer about 15 minutes before serving.
- cut into squares.
- serve each square with a dollop of whipped topping using the 1/4 tsp cinnamon, sprinkle each square with a bit.
- Ta Da!
- Eat and enjoy!
- Very appealing looking dessert!
Filed Under (Recipes) by chive on 08-08-2008

INGREDIENTS
- 750 g pumpkin, flesh in big chunks
- 125 g smoked bacon, strips cut into large pieces
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 250 gcream
- 1/2 liter milk
- salt and pepper
DIRECTIONS
- Heat 150g of cream with the bacon, bring to a boil and reduce to a thick liquid, strain, leave to cool and preserve in the fridge.
- Throw away the bacon strips.
- Melt the butter, add pumpkin pieces and cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Add the milk, salt and leave to cook (covered) for 30 minutes.
- Whip the remaining cream (very cold) rapidly until consistency of whipped cream.
- Incorporate the equally cold bacon cream.
- Keep the mixture in the fridge.
- After 30 minutes blend the pumpkin milk mixture.
- Adjust the seasoning by adding salt and maybe pepper.
- Serve this soup hot and top gently with a tablespoon of bacon cream.
- Enjoy.