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Experience the Life : From Our Table to Yours : Pumpkin Gnocci from Colonial Williamsburg

Pumpkin Gnocci

Ingredients

  • 3 medium size Idaho potatoes
  • 1 ½ c. sifted all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ c. sifted cake flour
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ c. pumpkin puree
  • 1 tsp. salt
Instructions

Boil potatoes whole and unpeeled.
Combine flours on workbench.
Crack eggs into center of flour.
When potatoes are cooked throughout, strain, then peel. While still hot, process potatoes through food mill directly into flour and eggs. Add pumpkin puree.
Knead softly until everything is combined evenly. Cover dough ball with plastic wrap. Working swiftly while dough is warm, roll dough into small logs in increments of about two centimeters in diameter. Cut log into — inch pieces. Roll pieces into balls.
Roll balls into boiling salted water off the back of a fork. When they float, they are done.
Strain and add sauce. Serves six.

Pumpkin Gnocci is featured in the
Thanksgiving Buffet at the Williamsburg Lodge Bay Room.