Now, you actually can cook with any kind of pumpkin, but starting out with a pie pumpkin, or sugar pumpkin is going to help you end up with more pumpkin from less work. Pie pumpkins are smaller, often a little squatier in shape, and if you are fortunate, labeled as a baking, pie, or sugar pumpkin. 16 окт. 2014 г.
Can any pumpkin be used for cooking?
For cooking, you'll want to use sugar pumpkins (also called pie or sweet pumpkins), which are small and round. Long Island Cheese pumpkins, which are more oblong and can look like a wheel of cheese, are also good to eat. Field types are larger; have watery, stringy flesh; and are best used for decorating.
Can you use any kind of pumpkin for pumpkin pie?
Like I mentioned, there are literally pumpkins named pie pumpkins. So obviously those are good for making pumpkin pie. BUT they aren't the only ones that make a good pie. In general any pumpkin that's meant for eating can be made into pie.
Which pumpkins are good for cooking?
11 of the Best Pumpkin Cultivars to Grow for Cooking1Casper. You may not think of white pumpkins as something to eat instead of displaying them as unique decorations, but 'Casper' has delicious sweet flesh. ... 2Cherokee Bush. ... 3Cinderella. ... 4Cushaw Green-Striped. ... 5Dill's Atlantic. ... 6Fairytale. ... 7Jarrahdale. ... 8Musquee De Provence.
Can all pumpkins be eaten?
Regarding the pumpkins in question: technically speaking all pumpkins (and gourds for that matter) are edible. However, you don't want to eat them all. Like everything else culinary, generations of seed selection (and modification) have defined characteristics in fruits and vegetables for particular applications.
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