Can you pick out the pie pumpkins from the so called carving pumpkins? no peeking below before you guess...... go ahead and cover up below the picture on your screen!
O.k are you ready? is it the right or on the left.is it the top 2 or the middle? Yes, It is the 2 behind the hollowed out pumpkin half on the left. (*both hollowed out portions and the seeded portions on the right are of carving variety*). As you can see, there is no difference in these on the meat amount. I scraped the innards of the front 2 with a grapefruit spoon. It is a carving pumpkin variety. It does seem less thick but it was much taller. They were within a 1/4 cup of each other. So what is the difference I keep asking? In a taste test of pies, using the exact same recipe & ingredients, we could not taste a difference or note any other difference in the pies.
Now the second test was pumpkin butter. The pie pumpkins seemed quicker to burn in the crock pot. Why you may ask? Well it seems the carving pumpkins hold more moisture even after baking all of them in their skin shell.
I baked both pumpkins in the same oven and one of each on each shelf just so there is not an effect on placement towards the outcome. The bottom 2 hollowed out pumpkins above are exactly how they are placed in the oven set on 350 F degrees on a plain baking sheet. They cook untill they are soft. Then they are scraped very easily with a table spoon. Note that the skin seperates easier in the pie pumpkins then the carvers but is still easy to remove.
I then put the meats into a food processor & puree away! I put 3 cups of pie puree in a ziploc bag, laid it flat on the top shelf and left it to freeze over night before placing in the deep freezer.
I cannot tell a taste difference between the 2 batch's of pumpkin butter but again note- the carver has more water and if you forget to stir because you are distracted as I had with mopping floors and scrubbing the bathroom, it will be more forgivng due to its higher water content.
So the conclusion here is there really is not a notable difference in the above pumpkins for pie and there is a slight difference in the pumpkin butter- with the carver variety in the lead. So maybe they should call the carvers "butter pumpkins"!
So off with you now, to purchase those left over (& cheaper) carver pumpkins for pie and butters!
Sweet pumpkin dreams...
~Tammie
O.k are you ready? is it the right or on the left.is it the top 2 or the middle? Yes, It is the 2 behind the hollowed out pumpkin half on the left. (*both hollowed out portions and the seeded portions on the right are of carving variety*). As you can see, there is no difference in these on the meat amount. I scraped the innards of the front 2 with a grapefruit spoon. It is a carving pumpkin variety. It does seem less thick but it was much taller. They were within a 1/4 cup of each other. So what is the difference I keep asking? In a taste test of pies, using the exact same recipe & ingredients, we could not taste a difference or note any other difference in the pies.
Now the second test was pumpkin butter. The pie pumpkins seemed quicker to burn in the crock pot. Why you may ask? Well it seems the carving pumpkins hold more moisture even after baking all of them in their skin shell.
I baked both pumpkins in the same oven and one of each on each shelf just so there is not an effect on placement towards the outcome. The bottom 2 hollowed out pumpkins above are exactly how they are placed in the oven set on 350 F degrees on a plain baking sheet. They cook untill they are soft. Then they are scraped very easily with a table spoon. Note that the skin seperates easier in the pie pumpkins then the carvers but is still easy to remove.I then put the meats into a food processor & puree away! I put 3 cups of pie puree in a ziploc bag, laid it flat on the top shelf and left it to freeze over night before placing in the deep freezer.
I cannot tell a taste difference between the 2 batch's of pumpkin butter but again note- the carver has more water and if you forget to stir because you are distracted as I had with mopping floors and scrubbing the bathroom, it will be more forgivng due to its higher water content.
So the conclusion here is there really is not a notable difference in the above pumpkins for pie and there is a slight difference in the pumpkin butter- with the carver variety in the lead. So maybe they should call the carvers "butter pumpkins"!
So off with you now, to purchase those left over (& cheaper) carver pumpkins for pie and butters!
Sweet pumpkin dreams...
~Tammie
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