• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m Asian. Hate Pumpkin Spice. It’s not even pumpkin. It’s nutmeg, allspice, and cloves.

    It smells nice but it tastes like dirt.

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      11 months ago

      It’s the spices frequently used to flavor pumpkin pie. The primary spice should be cinnamon.

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        11 months ago

        TIL that they have no fucking idea about how to season pumpkin in the US.

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                11 months ago

                For pumpkin pie, I usually not use spice. Sometimes a hint cinnamon or ginger. But no mix.
                But for a soup or a stew, I’ll probably be using a mix of cumin and ginger or simply the seasonings I usually have in the dish whether it has pumpkin or not. For roasted pumpkin, definitely cumin.

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                  11 months ago

                  Well, yeah those are the spices that create “pumpkin spice”

                  I never use a mix either, but pumpkin spice usually contains,

                  Cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and/or nutmeg. One recipe I found called for mace, but I skipped it because the store didn’t have any.

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                    11 months ago

                    In France will call “épices à pain d’épices”, ginger bread spice mix, mix composed of cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg and star anis. But we don’t call the many winter dish ginger bread flavour. For exemple, it is use in ginger breads or all types, winter cookies or hot wine. It more associated with winter than fall.