This recipe is the definition of easy as pie. The secret is simple: use roasted sugar pumpkin and a half whole wheat. Most pumpkin pie recipes call for evaporated milk, but this isn’t necessary. If you like you can roast your pumpkin and prepare your pie dough a day ahead.
Category: Pastry
Pierced through its soft center and filled with extravagant quantities of whipped cream, then lavished with fresh fruit, shaved chocolate, pistachios and other myriad toppings, it’s no wonder Maritozzi became a symbol of romantic desire.
Biscuits – from the Latin biscoctus, meaning “twice-cooked”– go back at least as far as the 1500s. The first biscuits were made from three basic ingredients – flour, water and salt – and cooked until they were hard, dry and tasteless. These compact bricks of bread, which the British called hardtack, were given as rations to soldiers and sailors because they could travel the world without spoiling.