Can I use any pumpkin for pie? (ingredient, cinnamon, ginger)
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This is what I do during the fall/winter when I am craving pumpkin pie but too lazy to make a full pie. I just mix up the filling and bake it in a round pyrex dish and eat it like pudding. I like eating it cold for breakfast.
What a great idea! I never thought of that. Thanks and to fleetiebelle.
I just saw an interesting use of pumpkins on PBS and it was not a cooking show.
Use a real pumpkin as a substitute for pie crust. Take a fresh pumpkin and cut out the top. Remove the seeds and attached pulp. Bake the pumpkin in the oven for a couple of hours. I think it was 400 degrees? Make a regular pumpkin pie filling and then pour the filling into the baked fresh pumpkin. Return the pumpkin to the oven and bake for another hour. I'm not sure of the cooking times and oven temperatures because this wasn't really a cooking show, just an idea for what to do with pumpkins. I guess a flatter-shaped pumpkin would be better to use. Slice the pumpkin and serve.
I just saw an interesting use of pumpkins on PBS and it was not a cooking show.
Use a real pumpkin as a substitute for pie crust. Take a fresh pumpkin and cut out the top. Remove the seeds and attached pulp. Bake the pumpkin in the oven for a couple of hours. I think it was 400 degrees? Make a regular pumpkin pie filling and then pour the filling into the baked fresh pumpkin. Return the pumpkin to the oven and bake for another hour. I'm not sure of the cooking times and oven temperatures because this wasn't really a cooking show, just an idea for what to do with pumpkins. I guess a flatter-shaped pumpkin would be better to use. Slice the pumpkin and serve.
I'll wait for someone else to try it and/or taste it. Sounds like an incredible amount of work, especially trying to scrape out the pulp from a raw pumpkin. I don't have that kind of arm/hand strength. Not sure the rind would taste good, but who knows.
I'm sure what you would be removing would be the seeds and strings. Then maybe scrape the walls of the pumpkin with a spoon just enough to clean the edges up.
It would have to be really small pumpkins or there would be an awful lot of pie filling to try to get cooked through to the middle.
I think a small pumpkin stuffed with a meat mixture, maybe porcupine ball recipe, would be an impressive dinner. The meat mixture would go well with the flavor of baked pumpkin.
I think a small pumpkin stuffed with a meat mixture, maybe porcupine ball recipe, would be an impressive dinner. The meat mixture would go well with the flavor of baked pumpkin.
Wouldn't the cooked pumpkin shell collapse in on itself quickly, OWS? I've seen lovely cookbook pics of pumpkin or other soups, served hot in the shell, but I'd imagine that doesn't last long?
Wouldn't the cooked pumpkin shell collapse in on itself quickly, OWS? I've seen lovely cookbook pics of pumpkin or other soups, served hot in the shell, but I'd imagine that doesn't last long?
You can also substitute any deep-orange winter squash for pumpkin. Acorn won't usually work because the flesh is so pale, but butternut, buttercup, hubbard and kabocha are all fine.
Eating pumpkins usually have much thicker flesh for their size than carving pumpkins. If you've ever seen someone bake slices of "Rouge Vif D'Etampes" in the oven you know what I mean. That's the main problem with using a carving pumpkin to eat, not the flavor -- the thin shells make them much easier to carve, but there's not much meat in there.
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