Can you eat large pumpkins

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Halloween is a huge business in much of the world. In the U. All on an event that really just lasts a few hours, one night a year. And the millions of pumpkins that are sold every year for Halloween and carved into creative lanterns will be disposed of one way or another in the first few days of November. How edible they are depends on what kind of pumpkin you bought, what you did with it did you already carve it?

The mass-produced standard orange pumpkins sold for Halloween have been bred and grown as decorations, not as food and not for flavor. If you are interested I have the recipe some where and can dig it out.

I attended my local giant pumpkin weigh-in on the weekend. The winner was over lbs -- shy of the world record held by a grower in Ohio. These pumpkins get carved into boats for a charity regatta, then composted. If they're over watery, why not boil down and reduce to increase the flavor. Easiest thing to do is a creamy soup.

Hardthing will be to rummage up giant soup pots and a range that could cook it. Maybe contact a restaurant and work out a charity free soup thing. The giant pumpkins are not fit to be cooked in any way. They are too fibrous and the flesh doesn't really cook down so much as turn to a bundle of stringy fibers in a watery soup that tastes bitter. A friend and I tried one on a bet one year and the entire effort was a fruitless waste of my time and a lot of ingredients.

We tried oven roasting some of it worth doing with too mature sugar pumpkins or winter squash , stewing it with syrup and even a few small pieces were deep fried. These pumpkins are essentially a different species from sugar or pie pumpkins and it is their internal structure that allows them to grow to this size.

It is also not very easy to get a tasty result using a jack-o-lantern pumpkin either. They have a thinner shell, very fibrous and a much lower sugar content.

These latter pumpkins and the giants have to be ground up before the flesh can be composted, otherwise it gets leatherlike and simply won't break down. Even the ants do not like it. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so.

My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Otherwise it's fine. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

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