SPOON BREAD WITH PUMPKIN
- 1 1/2 cups butter milk
- 1 cup solid pack pumpkin (not pumpkin-pie mix)
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 3 Tbls. Chopped fresh chives
- 4 Tbls margarine or butter (1/2 stick)
- 1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
- 1 Tbls. Brown sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease shallow 2 1/2-quart ceramic baking dish. In medium bowl, with for or whisk, mix buttermilk, pumpkin, egg yolks, and 2 Tbls chopped chives. In 4-quart saucepan, heat margarine or butter and 1 1/2 cups water to boiling over high heat. Remove saucepan from heat. In small bowl, with wire whisk, mix cornmeal, brown sugar, baking soda, salt and pepper. Gradually whisk cornmeal mixture into hot liquid in saucepan until blended. Then whisk pumpkin mixture. In small bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites just until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg whites, one-third at a time, into cornmeal mixture until blended. Spoon batter into baking dish and sprinkle with remaining 1 Tbls chives. Place baking dish in roasting pan on oven rack. Pour boiling water into roasting pan until it reaches halfway up side of baking dish. Bake spoon bread 50 - 55 minutes until lightly browned and puffed and knife inserted 2 inches from center comes out clean.
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