[Sca-cooks] Preserving pumpkin
Jennifer Carlson
talana1 at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 19 09:26:24 PDT 2008
Stefan asked how to preserve pumpkin.
A traditional method is to cut the thing up, thread the pieces on string, and hang to dry.
When Diarmaid and I announced our engagement, my great Aunt Cammie sat us down so she could pass on "the old family pumpkin pie" secret:
Select a good, ripe pumpkin
The night before making your pie, wash the pumpkin and cut it into chunks, and put the pieces in a bowl and set it in the refrigerator.
The next morning, after your husband goes to work, throw the pieces out and use canned pumpkin.
My mother once - ONCE - stewed down a fresh pumpkin to make pie. It took a lot of time, and I don't recall that had much of a different taste from one made with canned pumpkin. I'm quite content to let the nice people at Libby prep my pumpkin for me.
We don't eat it just for dessert. I put very little sugar in it, and so the tongue registers it as a little more on the "vegetable dish" than "dessert" range of the taste scale. We'll eat it for breakfast, if we have it on hand.
Talana
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