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Pinon Cakes

To make cakes, you will need the following:

2 c Pinon nuts (Pine nuts)
1/2 ts Salt
3/4 c Water
2 T Cooking oil

Puree the nuts in a blender or chop and then roll with a rolling pin to a course meal. Mix the pinon meal with the water and salt to form a stiff batter. Let batter stand at room temperature for about an hour before cooking. Place oil in a large heavy skillet; head until a drop of water will sizzle. Drop pinon batter from a spoon, shaping it into 6 cakes about 3 1/2 inches in diameter with a well-greased spatula. Reduce heat and brown cakes slowly on each side. Serve hot or cold as a bread. Makes 6 cakes.

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Pumpkin Pine Nut Bread

To make Pine Nut Bread, you will need the following:

2 c Flour
1/2 c Oil
3 Eggs, beaten
1 1/2 c Sugar
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Vanilla
3/4 c Milk
2 c Cooked pumpkin
1/2 ts Salt
1 1/2 c Pine nuts (Pinon nuts), roasted

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. In a medium size bowl, mix eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Mix well, then add pumpkin. Mix well and folk into dry ingredients. Add pine nuts. Pour batter into 2 greased 5x9-inch loaf pans and bake for 45 minutes.

The pine nuts generally taste better if, before they're added to the mix, you put them on a ungreased cookie sheet in the oven for about 10 minutes at about 350-400 degrees. It roasts them a little.

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Pumpkin Pinon Bread

To make Pinon Nut Bread, you will need the following:

1 3/4 c Cooked pumpkin
1/2 ts Nutmeg
2 ts Baking powder
3 Eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 c Light brown sugar, packed
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Cinnamon
3 c Flour
1/2 c Butter, melted
1 c Roasted, shelled pinon nuts

Sift flour, baking powder and spices. Stir in nuts. Mix together other ingredients and add to flour mixture, blending thoroughly. Pour batter into two greased loaf pans and bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until it tests done. Cool on rack.

Pinons nuts (pine) generally taste better if, before they're added to the mix, you put them on a ungreased cookie sheet in the oven for about 10 minutes at 350-400 degrees. It roasts them a little.

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Pumpkin Soup

To make soup, you will need the following:

1/2 Small pumpkin
3 T Butter
1 ts Salt
3 c Hot milk
2 qt Water
1 T Brown sugar
1/4 ts White pepper
Optional: Hot pepper sauce

Cut pumpkin into chunks and remove seeds and fiber. Pare off any bumpy outer skin. Cook in water until tender. Drain; put through sieve. In soup pot, combine 2 c. pumpkin puree with butter, sugar, and seasonings. Stir with wooden spoon over low heat for three minutes. Add milk, one cup at a time. When well blended, stir to heat through. Serve with toasted bread cubes. Tabasco sauce adds zip. Makes 4 servings.

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Ojibwa Baked Pumpkin

To make Baked Pumkin, you will need the following:

1 sm Pumpkin
1/4 c Apple cider
1/4 c Maple syrup
1/4 c Melted butter

Place whole pumpkin in oven and bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Cut hole off top and scoop out the pulp and seeds. Set seeds aside for later eating. Mix together remaining ingredients and pour into pumpkin and bake for 35 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve.

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Lumbee Sweet Potato Pie

1 large can of candied yams
(or fresh, cooked & mashed sweet potatoes)
cinnamon (to taste)
sugar (to taste)
1/2 suck butter
1 beaten egg
8" piecrust
bag of marshmallows

Drain yams. Mash yams and fold in beaten egg, cinnamon, butter and sugar to taste. Pour into pie crust. Top with marshmellows. Bake 350 oven until marshmellows are melted and brown. Set to cool before Serving.