To Stew Pumpkin
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, and cut it into small pieces.
Place the pumpkin pieces in a pot and add enough water to prevent sticking.
Cook
Simmer for three hours, removing the cover to allow some water to evaporate as it cooks.
Once fully cooked, drain the pumpkin through a sieve.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Pumpkin
- Forms the main body of the stew and becomes soft and tender as it simmers.
- Water
- Keeps the pumpkin from sticking and scorching while it first cooks.
The step that matters
Removing the cover while simmering. Leaving the lid off lets water evaporate, so the pumpkin concentrates rather than becoming watery. Keeping the lid on would hold in too much liquid.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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