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Fresh Pumpkin Recipe


Fresh Pumpkin Recipe
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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. Sorry my pictures are so dark. ... More

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Ingredients
  • Pumpkins
  • spray oil

Directions
  1. Wash the pumpkins.
  2. Cut them in half.
  3. 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.)
  4. 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.
  5. Turn the "bowl" upside down on a cookie sheet.
  6. Cook at 350 until the meat of the pumpkin is tender.
  7. Take out of the oven and let cool. You do not want to burn you fingers to peel this.
  8. Peel with a knife when cool enough.
  9. Mash the pumpkin with you favorite method, I hand mash with a potatoe masher.
  10. Use as you would any canned pumpkin, but this is better!

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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


This is the same method I use so I know it works great.

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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.


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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