[Sca-cooks] Using fresh pumpkin instead of canned in a recipe?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I recall reading - on this very list - some other Late Fall - that 
canned pumpkin is not made of pumpkin. It's made of other red-orange 
fleshed squash - ?butternut, ISTR...

I think part of the issue is that the pumpkins one finds in the 
supermarket have been bred for looks, not taste or texture. In my 
experience supermarket pumpkins are very watery and stringy. They 
need to be drained after cooking to remove the water, and then 
strained to remove the fibers.
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Urtatim (err-tah-TEEM) / Anahita