[Sca-cooks] Using fresh pumpkin instead of canned in a recipe?
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Thu Oct 27 16:30:31 PDT 2005
lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> 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.
I usually buy green-skinned "Crown" pupkins rather than orange-skinned
ones. The flesh is, as you suggest, less stringy.
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Adele de Maisieres
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