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It was a great Halloween despite the cold and the rain that cooperated by quitting just before four o\u2019clock in the afternoon. We didn\u2019t have quite as many trick-or-treaters as last year, when we had better weather, but still had enough to dispose of most of the candy I\u2019d laid in.<\/p>\n
After Halloween, I have another ritual. I call it recycling the pumpkin. No, not on the compost heap. I cut it up, cook it, mash it, and turn it into pumpkin bread and muffins.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s surprisingly easy to do. I wash the pumpkin, cut it into chunks, microwave them for 8 to 10 minutes (until you can poke a fork into it easily), strip off the hard outer skin, and use an immersion blender to mash the pulp until it\u2019s smooth.<\/p>\n
I usually get 5-6 cups of cooked pumpkin and I\u2019ll freeze any of it I\u2019m not going to use right away in one cup measures. You can use this in pretty much any recipe that calls for canned pumpkin.<\/p>\n
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This is my favorite pumpkin bread recipe:<\/p>\n
Pumpkin Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n 3 cups self-rising flour (or 3 cup plain flour + 4-5 tsp. baking powder and 1 tsp. salt) Sift dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl. It was a great Halloween despite the cold and the rain that cooperated by quitting just before four o\u2019clock in the afternoon. We didn\u2019t have quite as many trick-or-treaters as last year, when we had better weather, but still had …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[143,138,291],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-baking","tag-halloween","tag-pumpkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n3 tsp cinnamon
\nPinch of nutmeg
\n2 cups sugar
\n4 eggs, beaten
\n2 cups cooked, mashed pumpkin
\n1 cup melted butter<\/p>\n
\nForm a well in the center and eggs, pumpkin, and butter.
\nStir until moistened.
\nPour into 2 well-greased loaf pans
\nBake at 350 degrees, 45 \u2013 50 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"