How to cook a Pumpkin and make Pumpkin Puree

How to cook a Pumpkin and make Pumpkin Puree

Bill St John shows us how to roast a pumpkin. The better pumpkins to use for cooking exclude the ubiquitous “jack o’ lantern” pumpkin, also known simply as the carving or orange pumpkin. Those carving pumpkins are relatively thin-walled (making them easier to clean out and carve), whereas cooking (or “pie” or “sugar”) pumpkins are thick-walled, sporting a lot of flesh that is vividly colored in light to deep hues of orange or orange-red. And what killer names they have: Jarrahdale, Tiger Stripes, Cheese Wheel, Red Warty Thing, Knucklehead, Fairytale, Porcelain Doll and the Cinderella or Rouge Vif d’Etampes, an heirloom French variety.

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