Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Subversive_plot on July 26, 2023, 02:41
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I'm starting a mid-season growing experiment with pumpkins (this post isn't really about that; I'll post about it on my diary page
, and add a link to it later). Link added: https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=134417.msg1586100#msg1586100 (https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=134417.msg1586100#msg1586100)
I was reading John's post about how to grow pumpkins here: https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/giant-pumpkins-growing/ (https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/giant-pumpkins-growing/). Reading about pruning off most of the pumpkins if you want a large one (Jack o' Lantern for example), I was thinking about the waste if the immature pumpkins were simply composted.
Can they be eaten? Are they any good? Turns out, Yes . . . and Yes!! Read about it here: https://foragerchef.com/how-to-cook-a-green-pumpkin/ (https://foragerchef.com/how-to-cook-a-green-pumpkin/) I wish the recipe for green pumpkin pie was included, maybe I can find it somewhere else (or maybe I just missed it on that page? I need to look again).
Added later:
Well that wasn't hard to find (still wish he had just linked to it). Here is the recipe for green pumpkin pie (you have to scroll down a bit to find it): https://foragerchef.com/green-pumpkin-pie/ (https://foragerchef.com/green-pumpkin-pie/)
The idea of using green pumpkin reminds me of my mother using the rind from watermelon (cleanly cut from the red flesh, rather than leftover from eating watermelon like a heathen). She made watermelon rind preserves - a wonderful reminder in mid-winter of the previous summer. Now that I think about it, I will post that here as well (separate post though; here: https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=137941.msg1586087#msg1586087 (https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=137941.msg1586087#msg1586087) ).