Learn About Spices in Pumpkin Recipes (Cooking with Pumpkin)

Spices Used When Baking Pumpkins (Cooking with Pumpkin) - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. I want to talk just for a few minutes about pumpkin pie spices. You can buy little containers in the grocery store, you know upscale spice markets and what they have inside is cinnamon , cloves, allspice, ginger. And these are all the spices that you associate with fall baking, mulling spices when you buy little cans of mulling spices during the holidays. You put them into apple cider or even just put them in a pot of water, bring it to a simmer and makes your house smell amazing. What your smelling is all these different spices that when they come together, their called either pumpkin spice or cake spices. So you can buy them like I said or you can buy them individually and keep them in containers. So you got fresh cloves, you got allspice, you got the whole nutmeg here. Like that , which it needs to be grated, you cannot use it like this, then of course your big cinnamon sticks and when these get ground in a spice grinder all together, they make what is called pumpkin pie spices. Now you will use those for pumpkin bread, pumpkin pies, anything to do with pumpkins. They can be savory or sweet in applications. So you also see it in pumpkin soup if you roast a pumpkin soup or the breads or the cookies. So it is just a combination of spices that make up the pumpkin pie spice. So pumpkin pie spice blends you can buy in the store already put together just like this. Buy small containers because you would not use that much of it and if you only use it during the holiday season, you just want to buy it small containers or you can buy each one individually. You can buy the cinnamon, the allspice, the nutmeg, the cloves, buy them individually , grind them yourself in a spice grinder, dedicated coffee grinder that you have made into a spice grinder and you can use this combination of spices in any types of foods. It can be savory or sweet. It tastes delicious in of course baked goods, all types of baked goods, but it will taste delicious in soups, it will taste delicious in long chicken or beef stews that you will want to put some of these flavors into. It is a great combination of flavors.