{"id":824,"date":"2010-11-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=824"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:28:37","slug":"i-hope-this-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2010\/11\/24\/i-hope-this-works\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope this works!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;m making a pumpkin pie.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual for me, making something straight forward never is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pie crust is a simple one that I first used a couple of years ago. It&#8217;s very simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 cups all purpose flour<br>1 tsp salt<br>1\/4 cup shortening<br>1\/2 cup water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I wanted to use some butter too so I added 4 Tbsp of butter as well. I&#8217;ve been happy with this recipe for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, cut the shortening and butter into the flour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-825\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>add the water, blend together until it holds in a ball and chill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pumpkin Goo Recipe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never made a pumpkin pie before today. I don&#8217;t have a favorite pumpkin goo recipe&#8230; so I made one up. It&#8217;s a combination of 6 different recipes inspired by (and then bastardized)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegetariantimes.com\/recipes\/9598\">this vegan recipe<\/a>, chiefly because I didn&#8217;t have any cream\/half-and-half\/sweetend condensed milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 can pumpkin<br>1 tsp\u00a0cinnamon<br>1\/2 tsp nutmeg<br>1\/2 tsp ginger<br>2 large eggs<br>1\/2 cup light brown sugar<br>1\/4 cup light corn syrup1 cup of 2% milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whipped it all together in a bowl, poured into my pie crust and put in a 425\u00b0&nbsp;oven for 15 minutes and then turned down to 350\u00b0&nbsp;for 45 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making a pumpkin pie. As usual for me, making<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54.jpg",1600,1200,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54.jpg",1600,1200,false],"chromenews-featured":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"chromenews-large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Photo-Nov-24-21-54-54-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuckularone","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuckularone\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/baking\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Baking<\/a>","tag_info":"Baking","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}