THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October 19, 1995 TAG: 9510180078
SECTION: FLAVOR PAGE: F1 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Morsels
SOURCE: Ruth Fantasia
LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
BAKING AT home with fresh pumpkins seems all but lost since the introduction of canning. Sure, we all know what pumpkins look like. But when it comes to cooking, we pull out the can opener.
Canned pumpkin tastes OK, but fresh pumpkin tastes better. And while cooking with fresh pumpkin takes a little longer, it is easy. Inside is a recipe for fresh pumpkin pie. Colonial cooking
If you want to know how difficult pie-baking can be, visit the Lynnhaven House in Virginia Beach from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. The docents will demonstrate open-hearth cooking typical of Colonial America.
For a taste of what our forebears went through, here's a recipe from Anne Gibbons Gardiner, dated 1763. It was provided by the Lynnhaven House:
``Pare a pumpkin, and take the seedy part of it out; then cut it in slices; Pare and core a quarter of an hundred apples, and cut them in slices. Make some good paste with an egg, and lay some all around the brim of the dish; lay half of a pound of good, clean sugar over the bottom of your dish, over that a layer of apples; then a layer of pumpkin, and again and again until the pie is full, observing to put sugar between every two layers, and all the remaining sugar on top. Bake it half and hour, and before you send it to the table, cut it open and put in some good fresh butter.'' MEMO: RECIPE, WHERE TO BUY PUMPKINS: F2
PUMPKIN PLACES
Here are some area farms and stands that sell pumpkins.
Bergey's Dairy Farm, 2221 Mount Pleasant Road, Chesapeake. 482-4711,
482-4712. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 28. Giant
pumpkins cost 25 cents a pound, up to 40 pounds, 20 cents a pound over
40 pounds. Miniature pumpkins are 50 cents.
Clarke Farm, 3833 Bruce Road, Chesapeake. 484-3258. From 10 a.m. to
dark daily. Pumpkins cost 50 cents for miniatures to $15 for giants.
Henley Farm, 3513 Charity Neck Road, Virginia Beach. 426-7501. From
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through October. 39 cents a
pound for jack-o-lantern pumpkins, 19 cents a pound for smooth
pumpkins.
Hickory Ridge Farm, 2928 S. Battlefield Blvd., Chesapeake. 421-4720.
From 9 a.m. to dark daily. Pumpkins cost 39 cents a pound.
Hunt Club Farm Market, 2400 London Bridge Road, Virginia Beach.
427-9520. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Regular pumpkins cost 41 cents a
pound; pie pumpkins cost 45 cents a pound.
Norfolk Farm Market, 1600 block of East Little Creek Road (behind
the Bel-Aire Building), Norfolk. 480-2376. From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
Pennsylvania pumpkins cost 39 cents a pound; jack-o-lantern pumpkins
average $3 to $5.
Powell's Pick Your Own, 2828 S. Battlefield Blvd., Chesapeake.
421-3607. From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Pumpkins cost 29 cents a pound.
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MARTIN SMITH-RODDEN / The Virginian-Pilot
Fresh pumpkin pie takes a little longer to cook, but it's worth the
effort.
by CNB