National Pumpkin Pie Day

National Pumpkin Pie Day dishes up the swath of slices many Americans are looking for around the dinner table on December 25th. They also take the time to celebrate the ever-humble and often favored pumpkin pie as they enjoy time with family or friends.

Pumpkin pie is a traditional dessert in the United States, and it is often eaten during the fall and winter months and invited to Thanksgiving and Christmas tables. The pumpkin itself is a symbol of harvest.

Cookbooks & recipes

Pumpkin pie recipes were discovered in seventeenth-century English cookbooks, such as Hannah Woolley's 1675, The Gentlewoman's Companion. Pumpkin pie recipes first appeared in American cookbooks a century ago.

When the pilgrims returned to New England in the early nineteenth century, Pumpkin pie became a staple to the Thanksgiving dinner. Initially, the pumpkin pie was made by stuffing the pumpkin with apples, spices, and sugar, then baking it whole.

Not just a pie

Many popular pumpkin pie flavored items are in the grocery store shelves. We find the flavor in ice cream, pudding, coffee, lattes, cheesecake, pancakes, candy, and even beer. Advertisers everywhere promote pumpkin in their seasonal drinks and scents, all season long.

Candles, diffusers, and waxes are all set to infuse our homes with pumpkin pie scent. Our homes smell like a bakery for the first time before long. Since June, some of us haven't turned on the oven since June.

The pie brings back such fond memories, as well. Pumpkin pie is included in writers' seasonal poems, songs, and stories, as well as poems. In one of its verses, Lydia Maria Child's "Over the River and Through the Wood," a 1844 Thanksgiving poem, "Over the River and Through the Wood," writes Lydia Maria Child, mentions pumpkin pie: "Thanks for the fun!" Is the pudding made? Is it done? "Thanks for the pumpkin pie!" Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling," the song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" includes the lyric, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" contains the lyric, "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling."

How to celebrate #nationalpumpkinpieday, according to the author

Try a piece of pumpkin pie. Add a dollop of whipped cream to your dish. While celebrating, enjoy some good chat and a cup of coffee. On social media, you can use #NationalPumpkinPieDay to post.