How do I cut a whole pumpkin for cooking? And what can I make from it?

Answer 1

Cooked Pumpkin

"Here is an easy method for cooking fresh pumpkin and making your own puree."
Original recipe yield: 4 to 6 cups

INGREDIENTS
1 medium sugar pumpkin

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
Cut pumpkin into small manageable pieces and cut off pith and seeds.
Place cut pumpkin skin side up in a large roasting pan. Add 1/4 water and bake uncovered for 1 hour or until tender. Remove from oven and allow pumpkin to cool.
When cooled, cut away skin and mash or puree. Use in any recipe that calls for canned pureed pumpkin.


Cindy's Pumpkin Pie

Original recipe yield: 2 - 9 inch pies

PREP TIME 15 Min
COOK TIME 45 Min
READY IN 1 Hr

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 pints vanilla ice cream, softened ( = 395 gr )
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups pumpkin puree
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 (9 inch) unbaked pie shells

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.) Place ice cream near the warm oven to soften.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs. Stir in the pumpkin puree, sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Mix in soft ice cream until smooth. Pour filling into two 9 inch pie shells.
Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake an additional 30 to 40 minutes, or until filling is set.
Note

To use fresh pumpkin, preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Wash, and halve pie pumpkin(s). Scoop out seeds. Place pumpkin halves cut side down in baking pan. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until pumpkins are soft to the touch. Remove from oven, and let cool. Scrape out pumpkin meat, and puree in food processor or blender. (This can be done several weeks in advance and the puree stored in the freezer.)

Answer 2

Cut open and remove seeds, stringy inards and the skin. You only want the flesh although the roasted seeds are edible too.

You can bake the flesh with brown sugar and butter covered with aluminum foil and just eat it straight. Or you can simmer the flesh in water until it becomes soft and turns into a pulp.

Add sugar, cinnamon, and butter and you have a basic pumpkin filling for pies and bread. Enjoy.

Answer 3

Click Below for live instructions
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/10/life-and-death-pumpkin.html

Answer 4

I can answer here... but you should just GOOGLE!
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" whole pumpkin" "cutting" "recipes"

Answer 5

at the top so you make a lid...scoop out all the seeds and stringy stuff inside