Every year at Halloween I try to create a magical
lantern out of pumpkin, but always fail.
Not exact matches
So don't just dump those
pumpkin seeds
out with the rest
of your jack - o -
lantern scraps.
If you have ever tried to make
pumpkin pie
out of last week's jack - o -
lantern, then you have already discovered that roasted and pureed
pumpkin is not the same as the canned
pumpkin you grab at the market.
It turns
out that
pumpkin, a cultivar
of the squash plant, is good for more than the spellbinding toothy - grinned jack - o -
lantern that scares unsuspecting trick - or - treaters on your front porch stoop.
Of hiking through the
pumpkin patch to find the perfect specimen for my jack - o -
lantern (which never quite turned
out as fabulous as I envisaged in my head).
As I recall, the process involved cutting the jack - o -
lanterns apart and into chunks and then boiling them, but I don't have any memories
of what was made with the resulting
pumpkin puree, probably because it turns
out that carving
pumpkins aren't the same as pie
pumpkins (aka sugar
pumpkins) and you probably don't want to use them to make homemade
pumpkin puree for baking.