SC - Pumpkin pie OOP

[Bonne of Traquair]

>>BEST is using fresh pumpkin! Back when we lived in the greater 
Portland
>>(OR) area and had a garden, I would cook pumpkin and freeze it in bags
>>with enough for a batch of pies or pumpkin bread. 
>
>I also like it with fresh pumpkin, but have never had a garden.  
However,
>we always did buy a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern out of.  So I'd 
just
>be sure to cut out enough bits of pumpkin when carving the face to get 
the
>2 cups or so needed to make one pie.

Heck! Use the entire jack o'lantern!  Why not?  We don't put jack out 
until halloween night (some neighbors set him out days or weeks in 
advance) and we blow out the candle and stick him in the fridge at the 
end of the evening.  Next day, cut him up, and cook him, leaving any wax 
spills and sooty bits out of the pot.   If you don't do a jack 
o'lantern, just buy a butternut squash.  YOu can get a couple or 4 pies 
out of it depending on the size, and the flavor is much richer than even 
the little "pie" pumpkins some stores sell. 

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