Tue, Oct-18-05, 17:57
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Originally Posted by greannmhar
I haven't seen canned pumpkin here in Ireland, but I have managed to get a real one. Can anyone tell me if the stuff in a can is cooked or if all I have to do is measure out half a cup of the raw flesh for this delicious recipe?
Thanks,
Babs
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Babs, there are actually two kinds of canned pumpkin sold here in the US. One is just pureed pumpkin and the other is pie filling. They both are cooked I believe. I would do a search on google or a site like allrecipes.com on preparing pumpkin. I don't believe it is huge project to make it, but there is little difference in homemade pumpkin and the canned version.
I just saw a program here recently that said our (American) tradition of carving jack-o-lanterns into pumpkins came from Irish immigrants that carved faces into turnips and rutabegas for the holiday Samhain?
Ed
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