Baked pumpkin (Kastanitsa)
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Cut an orange pumpkin into large pieces, scrape off the seeds, and bake in the oven until tender and sweet. The taste and sweetness of the pumpkin depends on its variety, the soil and how it is cultivated. Also found in Thrace, Bulgaria (near Plovdiv) and Asia Minor.
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Browed flour porridge (Pousund)
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Pontic women claim that they could make poosundia very quickly, as they always had a stock of browned flour. When relatives or friends came to visit, they could turn it into a nutritious meal in minutes.
Flour
Salt
Butter
Honey or Sugar (optional)
Put some wheat flour in a frying pan and start parching it slowly until it is browned. Allow to cool. When needed, put the browned flour in a bowl with a pinch of salt and pour boiling water onto it, mixing with a wooden spoon. Keep adding water until thick and smooth but not stiff. Place in a deep bowl and press with the back of a spoon to even the surface and there is a hole formed in the middle. Pour some melted cow's butter and honey into the hole and serve. Each person takes a large spoon, dips it into the liquid and eats it. Honey is optional. According to a more recent version of the recipe, you can mix some sugar with the flour before adding the water and fill the hole simply with some butter.
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