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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis is the pumpkin most of us make our pie with
It's a Libby's Select variety. The meat of a pumpkin most of us think of is too tough to use as a pie filling.
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This is the pumpkin most of us make our pie with (Original Post)
Kaleva
Nov 2013
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Wow, I've seen fields of them in my area; vines dead and the squash just waiting to be harvested
Brother Buzz
Nov 2013
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Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)1. Cool!
Learn something new every day.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)2. Wow, I've seen fields of them in my area; vines dead and the squash just waiting to be harvested
I just assumed it was a weird variety of butter squash
rurallib
(62,445 posts)3. My daughter used to live where they made the pies
Morton Illinois (right near Washington that just got leveled).
The smell of that town every fall was quite delightful.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)4. By George, I've cooked those (boiled) thinking they were squash, didn't tell the difference.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)5. I grew my own pumpkins one year
I heated one or two in the oven, scooped out the meat, pureed it with a food processor, followed the recipe and made a couple of decent pumpkin pies. They looked a little different from the standard pumpkin pie, but they were quite yummy.