When is National Pumpkin Pie Day?
Monday December 25thOn December 25th, National Pumpkin Pie Day dishes up the slice many Americans are looking for around the dinner table. As they enjoy time with family or friends, they also take the time to celebrate the ever-humble and often favored pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin pie is a traditional dessert in the United States and is often eaten during the fall and winter months and invited to Thanksgiving and Christmas tables. Harvest is a symbol of harvest. The pumpkin itself is a symbol of harvest.
Cookbooks & recipes
Pumpkin pie recipes were discovered in seventeenth-century English cookbooks, such as Hannah Woolley's 1675, The Gentlewoman's Companion... Pumpkin pie recipes first appeared in American cookbooks a century ago.
When the pilgrims returned Pumpkin pie to New England in the early seventeenth century, it became a common addition to the Thanksgiving dinner in the early nineteenth century. The pumpkin pie was first made by stuffing the pumpkin with apples, spices, and sugar, then baking it whole.
