Tara
Canned pumpkin, canned milk, I'd bet a dollar to a dime that there's a
frozen case piecrust involved too. It's goshdarned Thanksgiving.
It's not just a holiday, but the one where food is most front and
center. Don't you take any pride in your cooking?
>
> Tara
--Bryan
Yes, and I think it contributes to the smoothness of the filling, although I
don't think it alters the flavor.
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Wayne Boatwright
I haven't tried it, but I think it would be a bit too sweet for my
tastes. A can of Borden / Eagle sweetened condensed milk indicates it
contains 230g of sugars (23g x 10 servings), the 3/4c of sugar the
Libby's recipe calls for weighs 140g, so it would seem the other recipe
has a good deal more sugar.
I've tried it. Tastes like pumpkin pie. It does simplify the recipe. You
can whip up a pie fairly easily and quickly using condensed milk and a
frozen pie shell.
The truth is, the best pumpkin pie you ever ate probably wasn't that
much better than the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. It's hard to
screw up pumpkin pie . . . or cranberry sauce!
Lynn in Fargo ;-)
I bet the evaporated milk has a recipe on it. At least I think _some_
evaporated milk does.
I've never tried the condensed milk. I always substitute half and half for
the evap though.
Ms P
You never ate my great grandmother's pumpkin pie. Trust me, you can screw
up a pumpkin pie. She didn't like pumpkin pie spice but without it the pie
wasn't the right color so she put baking soda in it to turn it dark. Took
me years to try pumpkin pie again after hers.
Ms P
There's nothing wrong with using canned pumpkin. Having made many
pumpkin pies, only two with cooked pumpkin and the rest with canned, I
can say that those made from cans went over better.
> The truth is, the best pumpkin pie you ever ate probably wasn't that
> much better than the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. It's hard to
> screw up pumpkin pie . . . or cranberry sauce!
True enough. It is pretty resilient to messing up. It might cook a
little faster or slower, but unless you really overdo one of the
ingredients they are likely to turn out no matter what. They may be a
little better or worse, but they are likely to still be good.... if you
like pumpkin pie.
Au contraire, Lynn. It's very easy to bake an insipid, tasteless pumpkin
pie with horrible texture and lousy pastry. Believe me, I've tried to eat
some like that.
IMNSHO, I think I make the best pumpkin pie I've ever tasted. I use fresh
roasted sugar pumpkin with the flesh slightly caramelized with butter after
roasting, heavy cream, milk, granulated sugar, eggs, a modicum of molasses,
and a mixture of seven different spices, all baked in a buttery pre-baked
p�t� bris�e pastry shell. It's a pie I never fail to enjoy. The result is
a rich, deep-flavored filling that is beautifully spiced and not pureed to
the point of being soup, although it's smooth enough to please most folks.
OTOH, it is hard to screw up cranberry sauce. :-)
Instead of half and half, sometime try half heavy cream and half whole
milk, or up to 2/3 heavy cream and 1/3 whole milk. The result really is
different than the half and half.
>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:02:27 -0500, Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca>
>>There's nothing wrong with using canned pumpkin. Having made many
>>pumpkin pies, only two with cooked pumpkin and the rest with canned, I
>>can say that those made from cans went over better.
>Then you're obviously cooking for heathens.
I have no experience making pumpkin pies from fresh pumpkin,
but I can relate that the "zucca al forno" I've had in
Italian restaurants tastes far better than does the filling
of a typical pumpkin pie.
(Maybe it's leaving out the pumpkin pie spice that does it...)
Steve
> You never ate my great grandmother's pumpkin pie. Trust me, you can screw
> up a pumpkin pie. She didn't like pumpkin pie spice but without it the pie
> wasn't the right color so she put baking soda in it to turn it dark. Took
> me years to try pumpkin pie again after hers.
That sounds horrid! I remember one that was served warm and the
sugar was left out. Ugh. The lady's son ate it without complaint,
though his face was interesting.
Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits
"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13
>Canned pumpkin, canned milk, I'd bet a dollar to a dime that there's a
>frozen case piecrust involved too. It's goshdarned Thanksgiving.
>It's not just a holiday, but the one where food is most front and
>center. Don't you take any pride in your cooking?
Oh, come on Bryan. Stop being such an ass.
--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
>The truth is, the best pumpkin pie you ever ate probably wasn't that
>much better than the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. It's hard to
>screw up pumpkin pie . . . or cranberry sauce!
>Lynn in Fargo ;-)
I think you're absolutely right!
Do you have a link for those who missed the pumpkin pie made with
condensed milk recipe? I've never heard of it.
--Bryan
Unless you eat the divine pumpkin CHIFFON pie. For that matter,
my favorite cranberry sauce is far better than the store-bought stuff.
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Jean B.
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Jean B.
>> The truth is, the best pumpkin pie you ever ate probably wasn't that
>> much better than the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate. It's hard to
>> screw up pumpkin pie . . . or cranberry sauce!
>> Lynn in Fargo ;-)
>
> Unless you eat the divine pumpkin CHIFFON pie. For that matter,
> my favorite cranberry sauce is far better than the store-bought stuff.
Agreed on both counts. Pumpkin chiffon is the only pumpkin pie
I actually relish and homemade cranberry sauce is the only kind
I'll actually seek out for seconds.
nancy
>I bought a can of Kroger brand pumpkin for my Thanksgiving pumpkin
Pumpkin pie works just fine with condensed milk - just don't add any
sugar to it!
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yep, you're right about being an ass.
>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:46:23 -0500, Tara <jarv...@ix.netcom.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I bought a can of Kroger brand pumpkin for my Thanksgiving pumpkin
>>pie. The recipe on the back calls for a can of condensed milk, with
>>instructions for substituting evaporated milk and sugar. I plan on
>>following the evaporated milk plan, as that is how the Libby's recipe
>>reads, but I am interested in the condensed milk recipe. Has anyone
>>ever tried it?
>>
>Do you have a link for those who missed the pumpkin pie made with
>condensed milk recipe? I've never heard of it.
The condensed milk version is on the back of the pumpkin can. It's
basically the Libby's recipe -- pumpkin, egg, spices -- with a can of
condensed milk in place of the evaporated milk and sugar.
Tara
I can't help you with that, and I'm not going to holler at you for
using
canned milk, but I always use heavy cream. It isn't any more
difficult
than using evaporated milk, and the results are much better.
Here's my recipe:
http://www.adi.com/~hamilton/recipes/pumpkinpie.txt
Actually, I think it's Craig Claiborne's, and makes two pies (even
though I try to shoehorn it into one).
And the crust:
I'm also right about the crappy ingredients.
--Bryan
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-->> > On Nov 24, 12:58 am, sf �<sf.use...@geemail.com> wrote:
-->> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:10 -0800 (PST), Food Snob�
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-->> >> <bryangsimm...@gmail.com> wrote:
-->> >> >Canned pumpkin, canned milk, I'd bet a dollar to a dime that there's a
-->> >> >frozen case piecrust involved too. �It's goshdarned Thanksgiving.
-->> >> >It's not just a holiday, but the one where food is most front and
-->> >> >center. �Don't you take any pride in your cooking?
-->>
-->> >> Oh, come on Bryan. �Stop being such an ass.
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-->> > But it's true. �I remember my mother saying the following to me; if I
-->> > complained about an ingredient in something she was making she'd say
-->> > that once it was cooked in with everything else, "You won't even be
-->> > able to taste it." �I don't ascribe to that, but instead go by the,
-->> > bad ingredients in, bad result out, rule. �I may be being an ass, but
-->> > I'm right.
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-->> > --Bryan
-->>
-->> yep, you're right about being an ass.
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-->I'm also right about the crappy ingredients.
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-->--Bryan
We'll make sure to point it out when your wrong, as you do to everyone else.
Please do, then I can change whatever is wrong, so I will no longer be
wrong.
--Bryan
so in the unlikely event you're asked to sample tara's pie, don't eat it,
THROW IT IN HER FACE!!! that will teach her a valuable lesson.
blake
That's the strange part about pumpkin pie - the use of canned milk. How
did that come about?
> That's the strange part about pumpkin pie - the use of canned milk. How
> did that come about?
I'm not a food historian, but I imagine the reasons are:
1. Relentless marketing by Carnation
2. Evap milk is lower in fat than cream (thus, healthier)
3. Evap milk is shelf-stable, so people get used to having it
Me, I'm spoiled rotten. I usually drink only fresh milk. I stopped
by
Panera Bakery last week and got milk and a muffin. The milk was
UHT pasteurized, and tasted cooked. It was nasty.
Cindy Hamilton
Mostly, I think is that someone was trying to sell canned milk. Pumpkin
pie and pecan pie could be food items created by food companies to sell
their nasty products. :-)
Fresh milk must be pretty tasty. Unfortunately, I have a problem with
lactose - that stuff would probably just kill me right off.
>
>
> Cindy Hamilton
Roasting fresh pumpkin makes pie better than canned.
> OTOH, it is hard to screw up cranberry sauce. :-)
I put in a lot of effort the first time I tried, then. ;^) Disaster.
Subsequent efforts have been fine. It's easy to get right but not
impossible to screw up.
> That's the strange part about pumpkin pie - the use of canned milk. How
> did that come about?
I think people started subbing evaporated milk for cream because it
was cheaper.
No, I'd just avoid her cooking. You just don't get which things are
which. Blowing up buildings merits severe punishment, aka torture.
Recommending using partially hydrogenated oils, or serving them to the
ignorant deserves an ass kicking. Plain crappy cooking comes with
it's own sanction. I have enough occasions to cross paths with crappy
cooking, so I don't seek it out.
>
> blake
--Bryan
>In article <RaVOm.18570$gd1....@newsfe05.iad>, dsi1 <ds...@spamnet.com>
>wrote:
>
>> That's the strange part about pumpkin pie - the use of canned milk. How
>> did that come about?
>
> I think people started subbing evaporated milk for cream because it
>was cheaper.
>
Maybe so, but I think shelf life has a lot to do with it too. I can't
buy fresh pumpkin in the spring or really any other time than 6 weeks
in the Fall and I'm not going to go to the bother of home canning it,
so I keep cans of pumpkin on the shelf. I also don't buy much cream
and rarely heavy cream... and I don't like to shop just to be able to
make something, so canned milk on the shelf is perfect. Everything
else is a staple item for me, so I can make pumpkin pie any time I
want if I have those two items on the shelf... and they usually are.
> Maybe so, but I think shelf life has a lot to do with it too. I can't
> buy fresh pumpkin in the spring or really any other time than 6 weeks
> in the Fall and I'm not going to go to the bother of home canning it,
> so I keep cans of pumpkin on the shelf. I also don't buy much cream
> and rarely heavy cream... and I don't like to shop just to be able to
> make something, so canned milk on the shelf is perfect. Everything
> else is a staple item for me, so I can make pumpkin pie any time I
> want if I have those two items on the shelf... and they usually are.
Ah! We usually freeze a whole lot of pumpkin puree in the fall and
winter and we _always_ have cream. Our milk is unhomogenized so we have
quite a lot of cream at our disposal if we want to use it.
>> I think people started subbing evaporated milk for cream because it
>> was cheaper.
>>
> Maybe so, but I think shelf life has a lot to do with it too. I can't
> buy fresh pumpkin in the spring or really any other time than 6 weeks
> in the Fall and I'm not going to go to the bother of home canning it,
> so I keep cans of pumpkin on the shelf. I also don't buy much cream
> and rarely heavy cream... and I don't like to shop just to be able to
> make something, so canned milk on the shelf is perfect. Everything
> else is a staple item for me, so I can make pumpkin pie any time I
> want if I have those two items on the shelf... and they usually are.
I am not a fan of canned fillings, but I have no problem using canned
pumpkin.....even if it is really some other type of squash. it is pureed
cooked pumpkin/squash. Come to think of it, I don't even have a major
problem with commercially made pie shells. I don't use them myself
because I don't have a problem making pastry. The pastry shells that are
sold around her are made by the same people who make puff pastry, and I
wouldn't go to all the bother to make puff pastry when the stuff that I
buy is so good.
We always have cream on hand. My wife loves cream. As far as I can
figure, evaporated milk is just a denser form of milk, and anything made
with evaporated milk is likely to be better with cream.
Or use it to poison a neighbor's dog...!!!
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Best
Greg
Thank you, Jean. I've never posted it, but I will when I have a little
more time. I had the recipe long before I had MasterCook and never got
around to entering it. It's still on paper. But I won't forget.
I hate to say it, but I don't like any kind of chiffon pie, or FTM, any
foods that are light and airy or fluffy. That's just me. :-(
Yep, you're a snob and an ass. What a winning combination.
> Wayne Boatwright
--Bryan
Happy Thanksgiving, Wayne!
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Jean B.
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Jean B.
Understood. We all have our traditions and expectations.
> Happy Thanksgiving, Wayne!
And to you and your daughter, Jean, a very Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm sure it's delicious, Jean, and if a piece were set in front of me I
would certainly eat it. Chiffon just isn't my first choice.
it's all about the punishment (excuse me, ass-kicking) with you, isn't it?
grow the fuck up.
blake