You have to use the small pie pumpkins for baking not jack-o-lanterns. Field pumpkins are stringy. I buy pie pumpkins in the fall, process and
freeze them and have pumpkin treats all year long.
I buy what are called 'buckskin' pumpkins. They're a kind of tannish color and the flesh is dark orange. The first one I bought was from an old man in a farmer's market. The pumpkin was a darkish tan and not very "pumpkin-y" looking but he said it would make the best pie. The flesh was a dark orange and so smooth I could mash it with a potato masher after it had cooked. I've never been able to find one just like it bus these are pretty close: http://clara.vrx.palo-alto.ca.us/works/pumpkin/Colors/tan/musqee_de_provence/ or this one: http://nipomopumpkinpatch.com/Graphics/Pumpkin_Autumn_Crown%20_L.jpg
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elijah13
Oct 30, 2017
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Nov 10, 2017
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I have only cooked but one pumpkin
don't make pumpkin pies
I make sweet potato pies
pixipixil
Oct 30, 2017
Me too, but at Thanksgiving. I used to think my son loved the pie but it actually was the whipped cream on top. Not for the whipped cream either. He used to snuff the propelent. We neverknew until he was living alone and had graduated to heroine. He died soon after loving working at a Halloween fest where he could scare people. Well he had us scared most of the time worying what crazy awful thing he'd do next.
Too many tricks for me. Hope yours is all treats.
nlbuchanan
Oct 30, 2017
I have made pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread from fresh pumpkin and never found it to be stringy. Wonder if we are using different types of pumpkins or are preparing them differently.
mamag15
Oct 30, 2017
I love pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin roll, and pumpkin cookies. Some have made pumpkin but I don;t think I would like that.
trynfindit
Oct 30, 2017
Fiesty, sounds like you cooked an orange jack-o-lantern pumpkin. I started cooking those kind of pumpkins until one year we went to the farmer's market looking for a pumpkin to cook. Off by himself was an old gentleman and he had a pumpkin, just one left, but it was a funny tannish color. He said it would make the best pumpkin pie we'd ever tasted. At home I cut into it and it was much easier to cut than the orange pumpkins and the flesh was a dark orange. After slicing it up and cutting the seeds away from the slices I baked it. When it came time to mash it up (after removing the skins of course) it was so tender I could use my hand mixer instead of a blender. And the old gentleman was right, it made a fantastic pie. After that I looked everywhere for a pumpkin like that and when I asked people about them they would say, "Oh, that's just an old cow punkin' (or a 'field' punkin')." I finally found the tan (or buckskin) pumpkins at roadside stands in North Carolina when we'd go there in the fall. But I still couldn't find that kind of pumpkin down here commercially. So I would save the seeds and, for a few years, grew my own (which is a real trick in the n.e. FL heat! ). Anyway, I've attached a URL for the kind of pumpkin I like. I don't know if this is the exact pumpkin I originally bought but it sounds like it.
freeze them and have pumpkin treats all year long.
don't make pumpkin pies
I make sweet potato pies
Too many tricks for me. Hope yours is all treats.
https://www.localharvest.org/pumpkin-seeds-tan-cheese-C3992