Every time my grandson says,
”АOh, Grandma, I don’t wanna eat baked pumpkin!”
Grandmother starts deeply pondering. She meditates hard and long on how to make the child eat this simple baked pumpkin. After some thinking, she decides to complicate the recipe a little bit.
Which ingredients to prepare for this sophisticated recipe:
– one medium-sized violin pumpkin /because they are sweeter/
– 5 eggs
– 1 coffee cup of brown sugar
– 1 ½ cups of milk
– 2/3 cup of einkorn flour
– 5-6 tablespoons of olive oil
– 10-12 dried prunes without pits
– 2/3 cup of coarsely chopped walnuts
– cinnamon to taste
How to prepare it:
First tie an apron around the grandchild’s waist and make sure to keep it away from the sharp knife while you are cleaning out the pumpkin seeds. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into small strips. Now involve the kid in the process of dipping the pumpkin pieces in the olive oil – he will love it and certainly make a wonderful mess of his clothes. Put the pumpkin to bake at medium oven temperature and in the meantime, change the child’s smeared shirt.
Concentrate and start preparing the magical topping.
Give 2 eggs to the grandson so he can break them in the bowl. For the other 3 eggs, separate the whites and let the kid add the yolks to the other 2 eggs. This is followed by solving a math problem / if age-appropriate / and finding an answer to the question how much is 2 + 3. While the educational process is still ongoing, you’ve already figured out that it’s high time to turn on the mixer and start beating the whites with 3-4 tablespoons of brown sugar / depending on how sweet you like it/ until you get them ready and stiff. You forget about them for a while and go back to the other bowl with the eggs, the sum of which has already been calculated. Add to them the brown sugar, beat again and then comes the turn to mix in the milk and the flour from our darling einkorn. The mixture starts to resemble pancake batter, but your objective is to convince the kiddo that it will be a much better idea not to make him pancakes, but to pour it on top of the baked pumpkin and return it to the oven.
I hope that you have been persuasive enough and managed to cope with this task.
The topping-covered pumpkin is already well-baked; you take it out of the oven and let it cool down for a bit. Spread the whisked snow the from egg whites on top of it and now it’s the grandson’s turn to put the finishing touches – he fingerpaints a few peaks with the stiff whites and sprinkles them with the chopped walnuts. While he washes off his hands, you carefully arrange the prunes cut into thin strips, sprinkle the cinnamon and you are ready to finish off this beauty by baking it for 5 more minutes at very low temperature.
The baked dish cools off and you watch fondly with a sigh of relief how the grandchild devours with gusto the simple pumpkin.
The same principle can be applied as well to simple apples and pears, if you happen to be experiencing similar problems.
