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

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>  > 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 spoke with one of the farmers who comes to our local Farmers'
>Market...he recommended a "sort of" pumpkin that's a pale
>orange...almost tan in color.  It's shaped more like a gourd or
>squash...round bottom and a fat, elongated neck.  He said that that's
>the best one to use for breads, pies, etc.
>
>Kiri

That's how a butternut squash looks... sort of tan, round bottom but 
elongated, rich colored flesh... no wonder your farmer recommended it 
:-)
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