Post by blackcrowheart on Oct 25, 2006 10:42:38 GMT -5
Pueblo Pumpkin/Squash Piñon Nut Sweetbread, One loaf, serves 6 - 8
Rio Grande Pueblo peoples traditionally served a variant of this sweetbread to parties of nut-pickers in September when piñon nuts were bing picked from the mountain slope trees. Families would (and some still do) camp for many weeks in traditional areas reserved to clans. In the recipe you can use either cooking-type pumpkin (these have necks and thick, meaty bodies, not like jack o' lantern pumpkins) or a sweet bright orange squash, like butternut.
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour 1 cup finely mashed or pureed pumpkin/squash 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup melted butter (1 stick) 2 eggs beaten foamy 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 cup pine nuts
Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, spices. Stir in pumpkin, eggs, butter. Stir pine nuts into thick batter. Scrape into a greased 6 x 9 loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until knif inserted in bread comes out clean.
This sweetish, spicy bread goes well with soups, stews, and can also be a dessert, especially if you cut it apart and put yogurt or applesauce over it.
Rio Grande Pueblo peoples traditionally served a variant of this sweetbread to parties of nut-pickers in September when piñon nuts were bing picked from the mountain slope trees. Families would (and some still do) camp for many weeks in traditional areas reserved to clans. In the recipe you can use either cooking-type pumpkin (these have necks and thick, meaty bodies, not like jack o' lantern pumpkins) or a sweet bright orange squash, like butternut.
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour 1 cup finely mashed or pureed pumpkin/squash 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup melted butter (1 stick) 2 eggs beaten foamy 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt 3/4 cup pine nuts
Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, spices. Stir in pumpkin, eggs, butter. Stir pine nuts into thick batter. Scrape into a greased 6 x 9 loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until knif inserted in bread comes out clean.
This sweetish, spicy bread goes well with soups, stews, and can also be a dessert, especially if you cut it apart and put yogurt or applesauce over it.