The Best Pumpkin of All
Greetings to all the wonderful friends and fans of Rosalie Serving Cookbooks. Here we are again right smack in the middle of Holiday time, and that means cleaning, decorating, and of course....baking.
One of America's favorite deserts, of course, has to be the Pumpkin Pie.
Worried that there wouldn't be enough pumpkin available this year, I did research on the largest pumpkin ever grown. It turns out that Jim and Kelsey Bryson of Ormstown, Quebec, Canada brought their homegrown pumpkin to the annual Prince Edward Pumpkinfest for the winning weight of 1,818.5 pounds.
Now we can recite to our kids for real...."Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well." She not only had her own private bedroom and sauna, but a greenhouse, pool, and mother-in-law quarters.
With this one pumpkin alone, everyone here and every Third World Country can have their very own pumpkin pie.
Is the lowly pumpkin worthy of all it's popularity? Yea, I say, in every way. Just to mention all the vitamins alone would take from now to tomorrow. It is rich in antioxidant fiber, full of Vitamin A and low in fat and calorie. The pumpkin seeds are a whole other nutritional matter.
Besides being so good for us, we can use the pumpkin in breads, cakes, pies, cookies, jams, sauces, soups, stews, ravioli, and for wallpaper paste. Well, maybe not the last one. You do get the drift.
So I offer my most awesome, wonderful, mouthwatering, pumpkin dessert... Pumpkin Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Filling and Candied Pecans.
Your guests will kiss and hug you, just looking at this beautiful creation. The cake is soft and rich in cinnamon, and the cheese filling along with the candied pecans, send it over the top.
So, have a blessed holiday, and be sure to serve the "best pumpkin of all."
Happy Holidays
Rosalie
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