pumpkin dhal
The pumpkin had been sitting there, waiting patiently on the kitchen table for weeks.
Days went by, and still nothing. Evening meals came and went on by, still no pumpkin passed our lips. I was waiting for the right moment, the right time to cut in to that deep orange flesh. It had been grown and given with thought and love. I wanted to eat it in the same way.
The time was right, the knife was sharp, our bellies were hungry.
The pumpkin time had arrived.
Pumpkin Scones
25g softened butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup mashed pumpkin
1 beaten egg
grated rind of half a lemon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
pinch of salt
3 cups sifted s/r flour
Cream butter and sugar together. Whisk in all other ingredients except the flour. Fold in flour with a knife. Turn out on to a floured surface and lightly knead, just until the ingredients come together. Cut out with a floured upturned glass. Pop on to a baking tray and bake at 210C for about 20 minutes.
cityhippyfarmgirl 
Yummy, love good pumpkin recipes!
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Thank for the inspiration, I’ve some pickled pumpkin that needs a special treat! Love the baby pic 🙂
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Beautiful Brydie! I’ll add them to the scone roundup!
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lovin the pumpkin..my beautiful friend just bought me over some homemade soup with home grown pumpkin….yummy…made with lots of love makes it even better xx
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hi there, long time not passing by. these are beautiful! did you boil and pureed the pumpkin? I have never done that would be fun to try.
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HI Barbara 🙂 Just steamed the pumpkin and mashed it up with a fork.
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Pumpkin dhal sounds great, do you have the recipe for that too?
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My dhal seems to change a little each time I make it, as I throw in what ever is going. As a loose guide though have a look here
and just switch the sweet potato to pumpkin. I also added some silverbeet to this one.
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Ahh, sweet pumpkin smooches!
Love a pumpkin scone..I have a copy of Lady Flo’s cookbook, apparently her pumpkin scones caused quite the ruckus in their time. 🙂
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Yum, must pick one up at the market next weekend!
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Look at your baby girl, eating mush already (and what wonderful mush it would be). Getting big so quickly.
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*sigh* so quickly Jo
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I love the pumpkin scones and I’m so glad you treasured your gift and thought long and hard about how you would use it. Flo would be proud of you! xx
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Beautifully done. Love the picture of bubs eating pumpkin …. that beautiful baby is growing so fast
http://www.mykitchenstories.com.au
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OK you might laugh but just down the road from you which is where I live, there is a pumpkin on my bench that was just like yours. Waiting to be eaten. I just cast a glance at it the other day and thought “Oh I had better not forget about you!” 😛
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A line up of needing pumpkins 🙂
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those scones look perfect brydie..i might have to cut into the one sitting on my bench and do the same 🙂
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I love pumpkin scones but my mind has (foolishly) classified them as ‘hard’, by virtue of the initial pumpkin cooking step. Thus I never make them. I might need to work on that!
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Definitely not hard Kari. I did a mass steaming of it all and then divided it up for the various dishes.
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Ooh lovely! I need the recipe for the dahl now too so I can use the little pumpkin sitting in my laundry since it was harvested 🙂
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I use this one Bec as a launching pad for all things dhal.
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Those are lovely indeed!
And your little darlin’ with pumpkin smeared around her mouth is so precious. What good use you put that pumpkin to.
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If I had ANY baking skills I’d be making pumpkin scones asap. Sadly, my baking skills are lacking so I make pumpkin soup instead.
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I love pumpkin scones! Infact I like most scones, mmmm scones.
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Hope you did something good with the seeds – not only are they delicious, but so good for the body too.
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Hey , great minds think alike, I did a pumpkin post too! It was sitting on the fence post for weeks waiting for me to do something with it.
Love the colour of those scones , who needs food colouring !
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made pumpkin soup last night might have some pumpkin scones today mmmmmmm
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I can’t eat pumpkin, but these scones sound truly wonderful and I could substitute sweet potato I’ll bet!
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Your scones look amazing! And pumpkin dhal would go down a treat here – I will check out your sweet potato dhal recipe …
Gorgeous photo of your little one 🙂
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Beauties! I might try that with a butternut squash (which is almost a pumpkin and the only one I really like) aren’t we funny about our squash tastes. I love the photos for this one too 🙂
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Judging by the look of the scones, it was worth the pumpkin wait.
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