Butternut Squash Question...

soba

Hi pavlovs_dog, that's tomorrow night's tea sorted then. It looks fantastic. Tonight we're having something I've never done before - butternut squash, bacon, onion, sage and pasta all mixed together. I'm sure it's not really that easy though!
Butternut squash cake is cooked and just been taken out of the oven - it's going to serve as a birthday cake for Mr soba for tomorrow if it lasts that long :rolleyes:

pavlovs_dog

would you mind sharing your cake recipe soba? can you actually taste the squash?

thriftmonster

ON the same theme, I always buy reduced pumpkins after Halloween and they keep till Jan in the garage - you just have to keep checking them for soft spots

soba

chloe99 wrote:

children would love that as a holiday idea - what did she do, just stick a pin through the seeds? but how did she thread the cotton through? are the seeds quite tough or is it easy?

Hi chloe99, just rung my mum and she can't remember doing it with us. So don't know if she's just forgotten or if I've dreamt it!!
I'll ask my sister when I see her, maybe she can shed some light on it.

soba

pavlovs_dog wrote:

would you mind sharing your cake recipe soba? can you actually taste the squash?

I'll post it later, it's not dissimilar to carrot cake, in fact the last one I made i didn't have enough squash, so made up the difference with grated carrot. It makes a not too sweet cake and it's lovely spread with butter. Not sure you could say that you can taste the squash - it's just lovely and moist with a nice colour.

soba

6oz melted butter
5oz clear honey
9oz butternut squash or pumpkin coarsely grated
4oz light muscovado sugar
12oz SR flour
1 tbsp ground ginger
1 egg, beaten
2 tbsp demerara sugar

Mix honey, melted butter and beaten egg in a bowl. Add squash or pumpkin and stir, add muscovado sugar, ginger and flour and mix.
Tip into a greased and lined loaf tin, spinkle with demerara and bake at gas 4 or 180c degrees for 50 -60 mins. Leave in tin to cool for 5 mins, turn out and cool on a rack.
Can be frozen, but never lasts that long in my experience!

pavlovs_dog

mmm yum! cheers soba :beer:

ozzyfan_2

soba wrote:

Just wanted to ask - if I save the seeds will I be able to 'grow my own' next year? Do they have to be dried out?

I planted some butternut squash seeds straight into the garden in the Spring (they weren't dried out) & now 1/4 of my garden is taken up by butternut squash plants! I'm quite proud of them as its the first veggies I've grown.
Thank you for sharing the recipe, it will come in very handy as we'll probably be eating them for ages!