I’m starting a new set of recipes to try and taste themed around my love of American culture specifically food. We travel to the US almost every year and I’m always enamored with the restaurants and even food available at service stations! So I’m going to find as many classic American recipes that I can; the more traditional the better and try them out.
Sources such as Martha Stewart and Pioneer Woman have been an excellent support so I’d highly recommend them.
https://www.marthastewart.com/
So first on the list is classic Pumpkin Pie.
Ingredients:
Pastry
1 + 1/3 cup plain flour
1/2 stick butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp cold water
Recipe
- Cut the butter and flour together. I have a metal pastry cutter that keeps the mix really cold as really good pastry in order to stay crumbly and short needs to be handled as little as possible
- Add the wet ingredients and combine into a ball. Put in the freezer to really chill for 30 minutes
Filling
Ingredients
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1tsp cinammon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground ginger
A couple of cloves bashed up
1 can pumpkin puree
1 can evaporated milk
Recipe
- Beat the eggs
- Add all the ingredients to the eggs and combine
- Take the pastry out of the freezer and roll out onto a lightly floured surface until as few mm thick
- Lift and place into a pie dish and push into the creases (use excess pastry to do this and not your fingers)
- Leave a little excess and trim
- Pour in the mixture
- Bake for 15 minutes at 425c
- Reduce oven temperature to to 350c
- Bake for a further 45 minutes
- Store in the fridge
I served it with creme fraiche as it’s so sweet so it helps balance it out. The verdict though is that I absolutely loved it. This is definitely the first win on the American Classics Cooking list
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