Make ahead Thanksgiving dessert: Steamed Pumpkin-Ginger Pudding

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The is from Williams Sonoma:

1 1/2 C flour

2 teasp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp ground cloves

1 1/2 C pumpkin puree

1/4 C heavy cream

1 Tbs lemon juice

one stick unsalted butter

1 C light brown sugar

3 eggs, lightly beaten

1/2 C crystallized ginger, chopped

Sift dry ingredients together. Set aside. Mix pumpkin, cream and lemon juice, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer combine butter and brown sugar. Beat for 3 minutes. Add beaten eggs, a little at a time, beating well. Continue beating for another 2-3 minutes. Fold in flour misture in 3 parts, alternating with the pumpkin mixture. Mix in crystallized ginger and spoon into buttered steamed pudding mold. Clamp lid, place on a ring in a pot of boiling water that comes 2/3 up side of mold. Cover pot and let simmer (not boil) for 1 1/2 hours. Remove and let rest a few minutes and unmold to a servig plate.

my tweaks on the bottom say: a little less clove, add toasted, chopped walnuts, use light cream and don't skimp on the cooking time. I used to make this frequently and it was good. Just found it again. I think I served it with whipped cream with brandy in it.

 
This thread and the one above may have changed my mind about skipping Thanksgiving, this year! smileys/smile.gif

Help me out, fellow U.S. expats... What do you do about the Thanksgiving blues? Do you do the whole nine yards? Or do you have a sliced turkey sandwich? Turkey schnitzel? Turkey potstickers? Cranberry kabobs?

The make-ahead ideas are great. Even though I teach all day on Wedesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving week, maybe I'll cook Tuesday and reheat calmly and gracefully on Thursday night. smileys/smile.gif

Some Thanksgiving is better than none...

 
Thanks, Janet, for the pm; tried to reply, but couldn't! The celebration sounds great, though. smileys/smile.gif

 
I too have the Thanksgiving Blues ErininPrague, so here's what I'm going to do...

Since I don't have a car and no more vacation days left, I can't join my family for Thanksgiving (so sad huh). Fortunately, my nice boyfriend's family has invited me to their celebration but that means no leftovers, which is an untenable situation!

So to solve my Thanksgiving Blues, on Friday after Thanksgiving I'm going to make a mini Thanksgiving for him and me, so we can have lots of leftovers and make Turkey Bone Soup, a post Thanksgiving requirement!

I plan to roast a turkey breast and a couple of turkey legs - I found that if you make a bed of carrot and celery sticks and onion slices on the bottom of a roasting plan, then put the dressing on top of the veggies, then cover with the turkey breast with the legs around the sides, it really tastes like the dressing has been stuffed in the bird and the timing for the meat works out just fine. Last year we brined the turkey and it was so good, but I'm not sure I'll brine the breast this year - but hmmm, will have to think about that now!

I always make my Granny's dressing, which came from her Aunt Emma, whomever that was, it has been THE dressing for as long as I can remember. I make it a few times a year to go with pork roasts too but it really excels with the turkey.

Gravy, using the pan juices and a batch of James Beard's Brown Sauce, to go with the mashed potatoes.

I really like a green vegetable, and will have to see what looks nice when I shop for this the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

For dessert, my mom's pumpkin chiffon pie is so wonderful, the recipe makes two, so I'll bring one of them with me to Marc's family's celebration and one for us to have on the weekend. I cannot have a Thanksgiving meal without that pie, it would be like having Christmas without Santa!!

That's about it though, I'm not going to make biscuits, sweet potatoes, cabbage, cranberry salad or rolls as we would normally have for Turkey day. I'm hoping this will help me miss my family a little less - tastes of home often help

If you would like any of my family's recipes please just let me know and I'll post them for you.

Will be thinking of you in Prague - by the time you start dessert I'll be starting the turkey!

 
Heather could you post the stuffiing recipe and pumpkin chiffon pie recipe too? Thanks!

 
Wow, you have it all planned! Excellent! smileys/smile.gif I'd love the stuffing recipe, too....

Great ideas, Heather. I love roasting chicken on onions and carrots; I never thought about doing it for a turkey. Looks like I'll be working with a turkey breast, since our oven is teeeeeeeeeeeeeny tiny.
Last year, in Israel, a friend of mine roasted her Thanksgiving turkey in a toaster oven. smileys/bigsmile.gif Hilarious.

 
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