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Hallowe'en is widely celebrated with jack-o-lanterns made of large orange pumpkins carved with ghoulish faces and illuminated from inside with candles. [177] The pumpkins used for jack-o-lanterns are C. pepo, [178] [179] not to be confused with the ones typically used for pumpkin pie in the United States, which are C. moschata. [122]
Connecticut Field Pumpkins. Go pumpkin-picking at a nearby patch, and this is the gourd you're most likely to see. It's large, sturdy, can handle carving pretty well—but is also edible enough to ...
Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in either Central America or northern South America. [2] It includes cultivars known as squash or pumpkin. C. moschata cultivars are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than cultivars of C. maxima or C. pepo.
Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata), known in Australia and New Zealand as butternut pumpkin or gramma, [1] is a type of winter squash that grows on a vine. It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has tan-yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp with a compartment of seeds in the blossom end.
For the pumpkin: Ingredients: 1.2kg pumpkin or squash, cut into large wedges and deseeded. 1 tbsp dark brown sugar. 2 tsp ground cumin. 1 tsp ground turmeric. 1 tsp chilli flakes. ½ tsp ground ...
The pumpkin's thick shell contains edible seeds and pulp. Pumpkin pie is a traditional part of Thanksgiving meals in Canada and the United States and pumpkins are frequently used as autumnal seasonal decorations and carved as jack-o'-lanterns for decoration around Halloween.
Fun fact: “Every single part of a pumpkin is edible: the skin, leaves, flowers, pulp, seeds—even the stems,” says Dr. Shemek. Whether it’s a fruit or a vegetable, you can never go wrong by ...
Giant pumpkins are Cucurbita maxima, a different species from the pumpkins used for jack-o'-lanterns or pumpkin pies, which are usually C. pepo. C. maxima likely emerged from wild squash in South America near Buenos Aires. The fruits of wild Cucurbita maxima are around the size of a softball. [2] Giant pumpkins in Howard Dill's Nova Scotia ...