Fresh Pumpkin
From tuilelaith 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 1
This is how I cook a pumpkin to my my pies and cookies. I know this sounds simple but one of my girls had to ask me how, so if they have to ask I tend to post it so they can come out and grab it when they have time. Read more Sorry my pictures are so dark. I hope they help any way.. See less
Ingredients
How to make it
- Wash the pumpkins.
- Cut them in half.
- Clean out the inside of all membranes and seeds, placing them into a strainer for cleaning later. (I save the seeds for later, u do not have too.)
- Spray the inside lightly with oil, I use the butter flavor, but you use what you want. My Mom used to use a paper towel with corn oil on it to wipe the inside of the pumpkin.
- Turn the "bowl" upside down on a cookie sheet.
- Cook at 350 until the meat of the pumpkin is tender.
- Take out of the oven and let cool. You do not want to burn you fingers to peel this.
- Peel with a knife when cool enough.
- Mash the pumpkin with you favorite method, I hand mash with a potatoe masher.
- Use as you would any canned pumpkin, but this is better!
This is what the outside looks like when it is done baking.
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And yet again.
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Soft and tender inside
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In a bowl peeled and ready to mash.
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Thank you for this. We have a few 15 & 18lb pumpkins on the front porch & now I'll have a proven method for cooking them.
You're the tops!
Jo & Lee
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This is the same method I use so I know it works great.
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Great explaination. Wish I'd known about this years ago when my mother and I tried making fresh pumpkin pies. I had really sore fingers from trying to peal the pumpkin. Maybe I'll have to try it again. Thanks
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in Duchesne loved it
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