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These pumpkin recipes are from "The Canadian Settler's Guide" by C.P. Traill, 1857. This cookbook is a great guide to emigrating and settling in rural Canada.
Dried Pumpkin
Boil down the pumpkin; and when soft take it out of the pot, spread it on dishes or tins, and set them in the sun or under the stove to dry. When quite dried, pack in paper bags, and hang up in a dry room. This mode will enable you to make pumpkin pies at any season, when required. Steep it in milk, till it swells and softens, and make your pie as usual.
Some cut the pumpkin in rings, and hang up to dry in the kitchen; but it is apt to mould and turn black: possibly, if dried at once in the sun outside the house, or at night in the oven, it would keep better.
Dried Pumpkin
Boil down the pumpkin; and when soft take it out of the pot, spread it on dishes or tins, and set them in the sun or under the stove to dry. When quite dried, pack in paper bags, and hang up in a dry room. This mode will enable you to make pumpkin pies at any season, when required. Steep it in milk, till it swells and softens, and make your pie as usual.
Some cut the pumpkin in rings, and hang up to dry in the kitchen; but it is apt to mould and turn black: possibly, if dried at once in the sun outside the house, or at night in the oven, it would keep better.
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