Pumpkins (merged threads)

studentphil

I have got 3 little pumpkins that I have grown in the garden, what can you make with pumpkin?

I was thinking about doing it like butternut with potatoes and cream baked in the oven.

Pink.

Hi Phil,

There's a great thread on pumpkins with lots of ideas that should help you so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

studentphil

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi Phil,

There's a great thread on pumkins with lots of ideas that should help you so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

Thanks, just a shame this thread doesn't come up via search.

tiff

Apparently pumpkin wine is nice...

Pink.

studentphil wrote: »

Thanks, just a shame this thread doesn't come up via search.

Hi Phil,

That's how I found it.....you need to go 'search this forum' (towards the top right of the main Old Style board). Then click on go advanced and enter pumpkins and search titles only.

Searching individual forums often gives better results than the general search.

Hope this helps.

Pink

mummy_Jay

Hi,

I've brought a pumkin to carve for my boy, but I haven't a clue what to do with the insides.

Please can you share any great pumpkin receipes you have.

Oh and how long to the skins last once you carve them, I don't want it going off before Halloween. Would this weekend be too soon to carve it. (I'm trying to get my boys focus off of Xmas and back to Halloween).

Thanks

Eumenidies

Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients
Rich Shortcrust Pastry:
8 oz ( 225 g ) all purpose flour
6 oz ( 170 g ) unsalted butter, soft
1 egg yolk
1 level dessertspoon of castor sugar
1-2 tablespoons of iced water
pinch of salt
Filling
4 cups fresh pumpkin, cooked and mashed
1 standard tin sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt

How to make

1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees C. (a bit less for a fan oven)
2. Mix dry pastry ingredients together, rub in butter, then mix to a dough with egg yolk and iced water.
3. Put pastry in the fridge for 1 hour.
4. Roll out into a pie tin, !!!!! the bottom and blind bake for 10 minutes.
5. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin puree, sweetened condensed milk and eggs. Season with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Mix together with a wire whisk until thoroughly blended. Pour filling into pie crust.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to175 degrees C and bake another 35 to 40 minutes or until a knife inserted comes out clean.

Short cuts: Use shop made pastry or a ready made pie crust.

Very yummy with cream or ice-cream!

My experience is the pumpkin shell doesn't last long, but if you keep it in the fridge it might last longer?

Penelope_Penguin

mummy_Jay wrote: »

Hi,

I've brought a pumkin to carve for my boy, but I haven't a clue what to do with the insides.

Please can you share any great pumpkin receipes you have.

Oh and how long to the skins last once you carve them, I don't want it going off before Halloween. Would this weekend be too soon to carve it. (I'm trying to get my boys focus off of Xmas and back to Halloween).

Thanks

Compost them Pumpkins for carving are bred to grow quickly, so the insides are watery and tasteless, IME. Buy a butternut squash to cook - they're really good value atm.

If you're keeping it in a cool room, the pumpkin should last a week - we'll do ours during the half term, next week.

Penny. x

Justamum

mummy_Jay wrote: »

Hi,

I've brought a pumkin to carve for my boy, but I haven't a clue what to do with the insides.

Please can you share any great pumpkin receipes you have.

The Recipezaar website has loads of pumpkin recipes so is worth a visit.

Oh and how long to the skins last once you carve them, I don't want it going off before Halloween. Would this weekend be too soon to carve it. (I'm trying to get my boys focus off of Xmas and back to Halloween).

Thanks

Not long at all. If you carve it this weekend it will have gone really manky by Halloween. I wouldn't carve it until at most a day or two beforehand. Carving pumpkin is really easy actually so won't take as long as you think. I remember trying to carve a turnip when I was younger - a nightmare. You can buy a pumpkin carving set quite cheaply from cookshops - the scoop thingy in them is shaped better than a spoon, and there is a little saw in which is easier than a knife, but spoons and a sharp knife can be used.

Also the seeds can be eaten - toast them in the oven and they are delicious and very nutritious.

Bexstars

If you wanted to carve your pumpkin now you could freeze the pulp to add later to soups, stews, pies, muffins. Jaimee Oliver made some butternut squash muffins on his programme last night which looked delish!