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Cookie recipe, Fortuny style ceiling lamp, pumpkin cookies, Pumpkin tones in decorating, Stephen Shubel
Some gorgeous palazzo somewhere, mixing roman stripes, parquetry floors,
chinoiserie, baroque metal sconces, and up to the ceiling limestone fireplace…
Stephen Shubel brightening up a corner of San Francisco
with 250 yards of tangerine silk curtains. Saffron, butterscotch,
marigold, and blood orange mingle in silk, velvet, linen and cotton…
Fortuny style ceiling lamp by Feneri through Sloan Miyasato, San Francisco
19th century French pine armoire…looks like a Houdon bust inside
Gilded French pinewood and crystal chandelier…
Shubel modeled the swan-neck daybed after a 19th century Italian design…
Hand-planed wide plank walnut floors stained a honey color…
Louis XV and XVI chairs alternately upholstered in yellow and
orange cotton velvet…
2 and 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cup raisins
2 sticks (minus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter)
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 and 1/2 cups unseasoned canned pumpkin
Glaze
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 and 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Pre-heat the oven to 375
Sift together all dry ingredients, beat butter with brown sugar until fluffy, add eggs one at a time,
beating well after each addition. It’ll look curdled, don’t worry. Add pumpkin, mix until combined,
add raisins. Drop large spoonful of cookie dough onto greased or parchment lined cookie sheets,
bake in the top third of pre-heated oven until top springs back when touched (15-18 minutes). Make
the glaze by melting the butter and whisking in the powdered sugar, add water if too thick…
Drizzle on top of cookies. Simply my favorite cookie of all time. I cannot tell you how often
I’ve made them since getting the Il Fornaio Baking Book by Franco Galli over 10 years ago.
I must confess, I never sift the dry ingredients, and dump icing on each cookie rather than drizzle.
It’s the perfect week for pumpkin…
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All photos House and Garden:
first photo unknown, next three Stephen Shubel Nov. ’04,
final photo : patinated walls by Françoise Billon Sept. ’06
Hi Trish! Only you could make orange look this good! Tangerine, saffron, butterscotch……these are beautiful shades….fabulous photos and a pumpkin recipe as well!
Thanks for the orange alert….it’s funny because I love the taste of orange!
Have a wonderful Sunday! It’s a beautiful fall day here in N.Y.
Take care, Laura
That was clever posting. I love pumkin anything for breakfast.
Lee
Okay…I’ve been persuaded. Will be baking pumpkin cookies this week.
lovely post…. hope you are enjoying your weekend… x pam (and i will admit, i am raw wood all the time if the wood looks amazing… would never paint something fabulous!)
Hi everyone! Also…I sometimes “forget” and throw in the full 2 cubes of butter, go heavier on the spices. When checking the cookies in the oven…if you press on the cookie and it springs back…its done. Melt butter in microwave. Good substitute for Halloween candy!
I love that color. And the more I see silk draperies in that color they are really growing on me. There was a piece in a magazine a few months ago with similar draperies in a home in New Orleans where the walls were a soft apple green and they had the pumplin colored draperies. It was gorgeous!!! As always great choice of images. Thanks!
My Sunday supper looked like your post – pumpkin orange – from smitten kitchen – butternut squash moroccan stew – (January 7, 2009) Can’t wait to try your pumpkin cookies this week.
Hi Trish,
I normally am not a big fan of the colour orange and I think back when it was all the rage, must have overdone it.
However I love the way you have described all these beautiful photos ~ the colours of tangerine, saffron, butterscotch, and marigold. All sounds lovely and all looks wonderful.
thank you for the pumpkin cookie recipe, I would like to try this. We had roast pumpkin along with roast chicken last night for dinner. It is one of my favourite vegetables and I often make pumpkin soup.
Happy week
Hugs
Carolyn
If I don’t give those pumpkin cookies a try I am afraid I might turn into a pumpkin…they do sound delicious and lots of delicious color in these lovely images. I have been enjoying a bunch of terra cotta roses-remnants of a photo shoot -all weekend and as much as I love the neutral look, I must confess I am a colorholic and a post like this feeds my addiction. I hope I can just enjoy the cookies and not get addicted to them, too! 😀
~Jermaine~
Beautiful images. Love the “pink is the navy blue of India”. Agree that is pink and orange. Such a land of beauty and inspiration.
Love pumpkin especially before and after hallows eve. I called my pumpkin- Apricot. G
Oranges and yellows are luscious and citrusy-fresh, all at once. Love those wide stripes.
–Lana