Pumpkin Johnny Cake
by Desiree Da Costa Gomez
If you like Johnny Cakes and pumpkins, this is
just the recipe for you. Try to use a good quality pumpkin (like butternut
squash).
Yield:
10
Ingredients:
- 575 grams. flour
- 1½ tbs. sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1½ tbs. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 tbs. margarine or shortening
- 1 cup mashed pumpkin
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup water
Preparation:
Put the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and shortening in a
bowl. Mix well with a wooden spoon and then form a hole in the middle. Add
the mashed pumpkin in the middle of the mixture.
Mix milk and water. Pour this mixture on the pumpkin and keep on stirring
the spoon in the middle mixing the flour little by little until it becomes
a dough.
Sprinkle a little flour on the table and turn the dough on it. Finish the
dough by adding a little more flour and knead well. Divide the dough into
10 pieces and form balls.
Add a little more flour on the table, put the balls of dough on it, cover
them with a moist dish towel and let them rest for 10 minutes.
After that flatten them with a floured rolling pin and let them rest for
another 15 minutes. Then fry them slowly on a moderate heat. Put them on
kitchen towel to absorb the cooking oil. The cakes can be stuffed with
sliced cheese or stewed codfish.
Tip:
When frying the Johnny Cakes the cooking oil must not be too hot,
otherwise the cakes will become brown from the outside and stay raw on the
inside.
Ms. Desiree Da Costa Gomez's website:
Desiree's Gourmet
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