How to cook a useful pumpkin pie

As you know, on the eve of Thanksgiving in the U.S. guys bake pumpkin pies and eat them with skill. And what we are actually worse? Besides, we do not have to wait for some there is Thanksgiving, so please yourself with loved ones fragrant pumpkin pie. Because firstly, it is delicious. Secondly - it is useful. Thirdly, it is sweet and sweet for helping the brain work.

So! To start baretki shoes, pulled out a small amount of stash and slaps a nearby storage shed. By little creative commodity-money machinations in your possession must be:

1. Flour. Ordinary, white, higher class.

2. Oil. Cows, unsalted and, if possible, without any mixture of margarine.

3. Eggs. At least 3 pieces. Although the three eggs for a long time nobody sells, so take a dozen, the remaining seven will be useful for a celebratory shot a neighbor's Lexus.

4. Gourd. They say big Markets are sold already peeled and cut into cubes. Feel free to take a kilogram, more than not. Squash is not wheel! Patissony - too!

5. Cream. Who will take the product with fat content below 33% - to blame.

6. Spices for pumpkin pie. In Russia, not sold in principle. But we are the great people (who even drove Hitler to suicide) to expand the American condiment for components and buy everything separately: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.

Bought, brought home - start a carnival!

First things first, a deep bowl, with steady hand, threw out 1 and 3 / 4 cup of flour. There also throw a half-teaspoon of salt. The best of the sea, but in principle no difference. The main thing that is not black. Mix gently and carefully. Afterward that chops off half a packet of butter (at the rate of 1 pack = 200 grams) and threw in the flour-salt mixture.

Then the fun begins. Any suitable assistant object, rhythmic movements, rubbed oil with flour to get something like bread crumbs. Snapped? Done! Carefully split the egg and separate the gesture Hmayak Hakobyan protein from egg yolk. Who does not know how - calling a young neighbor and asks for help. Protein pour in some cup and set aside, and the yolk, without undue sentimentality we throw into the abyss psevdohlebnyh crumbs. There is pour a tablespoon of ice water and gently, without fanaticism, starting going to get into a whole. Hesitated ready dough, roll it into a ball and wrapped in cellophane, put in the fridge for half an hour.

Meanwhile, cut and stripped of extraneous inclusions pumpkin cooked in a little water until soft. Once while trying to crash-test spoon source cube will turn into yellow mush, stuffing can be considered as practically finished. In a small strainer (if not available - called again a young neighbor) crumble pumpkin puree to the state and wait for extra (read - all) the liquid flow into the abyss of water.

By this time, the dough has cooled sufficiently hardened and strengthened. From the refrigerator cool ball, rolled it into a thin pancake and place in a baking dish. If this is a form with a detachable bottom - you honor and praise. If not - a pan without a handle, too, will come down. Laid out, poked with a fork for the severity, covered with oiled paper and then stuck in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Here you can take an easy time out, washed with flour and try to clean up the kitchen, drink a glass of purified, kryaknutaya and eat pickled herring. Life is good!

After chetvertchasovogo period, we obtain a frying pan and send it in the oven. I hope you have already warmed her up to 200 degrees? If not - it's time to do it. Those who board on a strange coincidence, is not a thermometer, like your humble servant, I recommend to set the throttle on the 5.5 - tested empirically. We put, smoke 10 minutes. From the first bell pulls out a semi-finished, throw out the wax paper and put another 5 minutes. Time is just enough to call a young neighbor and invite her to tea.

Five minutes passed, takes the form, reduce the temperature to 190 degrees (4.5 on a scale of stoves without thermometer) and the emergency rate is taken as a stuffing. In deep bowl, with the help of the blender gomogeniziruem pumpkin puree, 2 eggs, 200 grams of high-fat cream, 7 tablespoons of sugar, 0.5 teaspoon salt and one tablespoon of spice for pumpkin pie. If you have not cooked pumpkin mix - not a problem, do it quickly and without much effort.

The proportions are as follows:

1. Ginger - 1 tsp
2. Grated nutmeg - 1 tsp
3. Cinnamon - 1 tsp
4. Pepper sweet peas - 1 tsp
5. Cloves - 1 tsp

The last two ingredients grind to a fine powder and add to the first three. Carefully mixed, poured a tablespoon for filling, we remove the rest for a rainy day. Ready-made whipped toppings without samples (Here, special attention "I'm on pervosti also decided to try and stopped only when devoured half the final mass) pour in baked form and put it all into the oven.

Now we have time to be ready to meet a young neighbor, or simply to clean up the kitchen, traditionally resembling the traces of joy Makhnovist to the village mill. Forty minutes later, we obtain a cake and dancing impatiently, waiting for when the finished product is cooled to room temperature. Individuals with special aestheticism can sprinkle pastries with powdered sugar, the person with the perverted proclivities can add whipped cream. Everyone, as they say, his own.

Pour a big cup of freshly brewed coffee, cut a slice of pie and the royal ... Well after that I will not tell, to teach people to eat do not need this type of basic instinct. In short, bon appetit!