This section is from the book "The Progress Meatless Cook Book", by Carlotta Lake. Also available from Amazon: The Progress Meatless Cook Book.
Pumpkin may be grated raw and used as when cooked, making less work to prepare.
Grating, now-a-days, usually means running through the food chopper.
A pumpkin may be baked by cutting it in two, removing seeds, scooping it from the shell with a mixing spoon and crushing through a colander.
In selecting a pumpkin, choose a glossy one that is flat on both ends.
Chopped pecan and English walnuts sprinkled over a pumpkin pie just before putting it in the oven, give an agreeable flavor.
Shredded cocoanut sprinkled over a pumpkin pie just as it goes in the oven, is nice.
1 1/4 cupfuls pumpkin 1 cupful milk 1/2 cupful sugar
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1/2 teaspoonful cinnamon
1 egg
Prepare the pumpkin by washing, cutting in pieces, paring and steaming till soft. Rub through a colander or sieve. To the required amount add the beaten egg and other ingredients, mixing thoroughly. Pour into a crust with a high rim.
This recipe may be varied by using squash instead of pumpkin, and the required amount of sweetening used being half sugar and half molasses.
Prepare the filling as per Pumpkin Pie No. 1. Butter the pie tins, just cover the bottom with corn meal. Pour in the filling, and bake.
 
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