Pumpkin Johnny Cake

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If you like Johnny Cakes and pumpkins, this is just the recipe for you. Try to use a good quality pumpkin (like butternut squash).

Makes: 10

Ingredients:

* 575 grams. flour
* 1 tbs. sugar
* 1 tsp. salt
* 1� tbs. baking powder
* � tsp. ground cinnamon
* 1 tbs. margarine or shortening
* 1 cup mashed pumpkin
* 1 cup milk
* 1 cup water

Preparation:
Put the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and shortening in a bowl. Mix well with a wooden spoon and then form a hole in the middle. Add the mashed pumpkin in the middle of the mixture.
Mix milk and water. Pour this mixture on the pumpkin and keep on stirring the spoon in the middle mixing the flour little by little until it becomes a dough.
Sprinkle a little flour on the table and turn the dough on it. Finish the dough by adding a little more flour and knead well. Divide the dough into 10 pieces and form balls.
Add a little more flour on the table, put the balls of dough on it, cover them with a moist dish towel and let them rest for 10 minutes.
After that flatten them with a floured rolling pin and let them rest for another 15 minutes. Then fry them slowly on a moderate heat. Put them on kitchen towel to absorb the cooking oil. The cakes can be stuffed with sliced cheese or stewed codfish.

Tip:
When frying the Johnny Cakes the cooking oil must not be too hot, otherwise the cakes will become brown from the outside and stay raw on the inside.