Fun in the Kitchen

[derannimer <susannahlm@yahoo.com>]

Steve wrote: 

>Maybe a better idea would be to think of a way to make an orange
>colored punch that maybe has some pumpkin pie spices added to it. I'm
>not sure what those spices are though.

Err. . . 

(Derannimer, who is for some reason finding this conversation very 
funny, tries to wipe the smile off her face.)

I'm not really sure how that would taste. I don't know what those 
spices would be either--cloves, I think, and maybe All-Spice--but I 
don't know what they would be like in punch. I think that all those 
spices would be quite. . . sort of. . . well, spicey. And sort of 
cloyingly sweet.   

And as for this: 

>You could take some cans of pumpkin pie mix, mix one or more cans 
>with a lot of water or with your regular punch, and you have not 
>pumpkin juice but pumpkin pie juice.

ooohhhhhhh, no. No, I don't think that will work; I don't think--Oh!

Oh, you mean *powdered mix.*

Oh, I thought you meant the goopy pumpkin filling that you get in 
cans and put in the middle of your pie.

At least, I think you mean powdered mix. 

Powdered mix would probably dissolve fine--though I have no idea what 
it would taste like--but the gooey pie filling stuff wouldn't, I 
imagine.

Though I've obviously never tried. 

Ooh.

This is intriguing. 

Kitchen Science. ; )

>Well, first you need a lot of pumpkins then you need a juicer.

>Slice the pumpkins up, peel the outer skin off, and feed the 
>remaining pumpkin pieces into the juicer. I don't think you will get 
>a lot of juice from each pumpkin though. It's not a real juice 
>vegetable.

Yeah, I bet you're right.

Well, you could. . . 

Hmmm.

Here's a question. 

Before they could buy that gooey pumpkin filling stuff, what did they 
use instead. Do you suppose. . . 

(Derannimer is hesitant to even voice this possibility, as it sounds 
quite disgusting.)

Do you suppose they used the goopy stuff *inside* of a pumpkin? You 
know, that gross goopy stuff that you hate when you carve 
jack'o'lanterns? And maybe puree'd it? I think it's technically 
speaking edible. 

Cause maybe you could puree it very thin, and then add the pumpkin 
juice from the juicer to *that.* That way, you wouldn't need as much 
of the juice.

(Derannimer starts giggling.)

But *that* hardly seems right either. At least, I certainly don't 
think so.

Maybe I can ask my mum how to make pumpkin juice. She cooks. . . 



Derannimer (who reads a lot of fanfic too, but is really impressed 
with Nate's record. And his menacing doom-bunny.) ; )