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- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:36:54 -0600
Bill, isn't the sweetmeat squash also grown for pumpkin pie filling? I've had
good experience with using my own sweetmeats for pie.
paul AT largocreekfarms.com
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On 9/23/2004 at 9:10 AM Bill Shoemaker wrote:
>Pie pumpkin is a term that gets applied to small pumpkins in the industry
>and many of these cultivars were not bred for the highest quality for pie
>making. They just have that cute small jack o'lantern look that consumers
>like, and growers usually call pie pumpkin. Illinois grows the bulk of the
>nation's pumpkins for canning (Libbys/Nestles/others). I've had the
>opportunity to work with the industry a bit during my career. I can vouch
>that the pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin that goes in the can with the Libbys
>Libbys
>Libbys label is not a jack o'lantern pumpkin. It's not even the same
>species
>of pumpkin. It's a Cucurbita moschata pumpkin, closely related to butternut
>squash, with the same-colored smooth skin and an oblong shape, like a
>football without the points on the end. A couple of oldtime varieties that
>are like this are Dickinson Field and Kentucky Field. A newer cultivar that
>is smaller and very true to the type is Buckskin. I'm not sure who carries
>it but I'd guess it wouldn't take too many searches in seed catalogues to
>find it. The small jack o'lanterns called pie pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo) are
>great ornamentals but I'm not sure you'll get as good a pie. But, then
>maybe
>you could make a pie out of butternut squash. That doesn't sound half-bad
>too me.
>
>Bill Shoemaker
>Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
>Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>
>
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Bill Shoemaker, 09/23/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins, Tradingpost, 09/23/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Grow19, 09/23/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Pat Meadows, 09/23/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Tradingpost, 09/23/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins, Pat Meadows, 09/23/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Tradingpost, 09/23/2004
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Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Pat Meadows, 09/23/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins, Bill Shoemaker, 09/23/2004
-
[Market-farming] pie pumpkins,
Carl Hatfield, 09/23/2004
- Re: [Market-farming] pie pumpkins, Pat Meadows, 09/24/2004
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