The Pumpkin Bakery Cookbook

Our first cookbook

The Pumpkin Bakery

Farmhouse Recipes for Market Mornings from the Kansas Prairie. More than forty recipes from our kitchen in Newton, Kansas, the same ones we bake for the farmers market table.

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What is inside

This is a working bakery book. It opens with the pumpkins themselves, a master roasted puree, the Prairie Spice Blend, and notes for the prairie baker, then moves through six chapters of recipes, many of them the same ones we sell at the market table. Pumpkin is the thread that runs through it, from the moschata varieties we grow to the puree that goes into the bread, but there is plenty here for anyone who bakes.

• Morning at the MarketPrairie Pumpkin Muffins, Pumpkin Patch Blueberry Muffins, maple scones, streusel coffee cake, baked donuts, waffles, and a pancake mix for gift jars.
• Breads of the PrairieSignature Pumpkin Bread, cinnamon swirl loaf, sandwich loaf, dinner rolls, brioche, skillet cornbread, and pumpkin bagels.
• The Cookie JarPumpkin Snickerdoodles, Sunrise Oat Cookies, browned-butter iced cookies, pepita biscotti, whoopie pies, blondies, and swirl brownies.
• Bars, Cakes & Sweet EndingsPrairie Gold Pumpkin Pie, pie bars, cheesecake bars, hand pies, Pumpkin Apple Turnovers, snack cake, cupcakes, and tea cakes.
• Rolls, Buns & PastryPumpkin cinnamon rolls, maple pecan sticky buns, cream Danish, soft pretzels, and rosemary crackers.
• The Pantry & Gift TableApple butter, granola, Pumpkin Spice Kettle Corn, Smoky Pepita Popcorn, dog biscuits, spiced cider, and a storage and market-day chart.

Who wrote it

Christopher and Margaret Snow grow heirloom pumpkins and squash on a small homestead in Newton, Kansas, and sell seeds, coffee, soap, and baked goods at the farmers market. The book is the kitchen side of that story: what we do with the pumpkins after the seeds are saved.

Ways to get it

Baking with pumpkin you grew yourself? Start with our heirloom pie pumpkin seeds or the Long Island Cheese growing guide.

Also from our homestead: The Ground Beneath Us, Christopher's book on what a garden knows about democracy, economics, and the soul.