S9:E33. 09/24/2022
Pumpkin Pie and the Blue Ribbon Country Fair, Townsend, TN
Pumpkin Pie and news of an Old-Fashioned Country Fair, the Blue Ribbon Country Fair, is taking place Saturday, September 24th from 10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. at the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Townsend, TN.
Our guests are James Gann, a music teacher in Walland, Tennessee. With a specific type of pumpkin he grows and a description of his prize-winning pumpkin pie that won a ribbon at the Blue Ribbon Country Fair in 2019. Haylee Donahue, an East, TN resident. She’ll share her recipe for a gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin pie and describes how she processes her pie pumpkin (see her recipe below). And In Fred Sauceman’s Pot Luck Radio series New York Times best-selling Novelist Adriana Trigiani shares autumn memories of growing up in Big Stone Gap, VA, and a little story involving the late actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Links:
Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center: https://www.gsmheritagecenter.org/
Adriana Trigiani: https://adrianatrigiani.com/
Fred Sauceman: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman
Emi Sunshine (sings our theme song): https://theemisunshine.com/
Recipe from Haylee Donahue’s gluten free, dairy free pumpkin pie: (Makes a double batch)
Ingredients:
- 2 cups pumpkin puree
- 12 ounces of coconut milk for dairy free pie. Or, instead of the coconut milk, use 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk instead if you do not mind dairy.
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 2 deep dish pie shells (Haylee used the gluten free pie shells from the grocery store)
Directions:
Mix together sugar, salt, spice, and eggs in a bowl.
Add pumpkin puree and almond milk.
Pour into pie shell.
Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes