Steve wrote in message
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someone wrote:
............................................ Don't forget
the winter squash - much tastier than pumpkin. But you can make pie
with the pumpkins :-).....................................

You can make a good pumpkin pie from winter squash. (Most canned
pumpkin
from the store isn't really from pumpkins anyway.)
When I was a teenager, my mother made some pumpkin pies from over
mature
yellow zucchini. I think I made some too one time. The pies were a
little less solid compared to real pumpkin but they had a nice fruity
quality to them that I liked. That reminds me... I think I have 2 big
yellow zucchinis out in the garage, if they didn't freeze.

I have also been known to use big yellow zucchinis for tall
jack-o-lanterns. They never fail to get comments from people.

Out here in the wilds of central England we call large
zucchinis...marrows. Personally I think they're awful: watery veg not
worth growing, but lots of old geezers here love to grow them and enter
them in veg. growing competitions in the autumn. As far as I'm
concerned, marrows are only good for throwing at cats, dogs and birds.

[Whilst a young person I did once try and make 'rum' using a marrow,
injecting it with sugar and hoping it would ferment, etc. Total
failure]

Sorry, a bit off-topic.

s.