On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:29:43 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

On 2011-07-23, Mike Lyle wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:59:14 +0100, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:

So can you do the same with pumpkins or are they inedible until they are
fully grown and bright orange?

They're still inedible even then. You put them on the roof to dry out
a bit. And they're still inedible. Not to mention dashed dangerous, as
you have to get into them with an axe, which few people these days
know how to use. In Aus, they used to panic around trying to find ways
of forcing pumpkins down us: the most bearable was pumpkin scones,
with lots of butter. Butternut are good, but I'd never even heard of
those till about 1973.

I won't bother asking you for your favourite pumpkin recipes.

I've never had any trouble carving them for decoration or cutting them
for cooking with a normal kitchen knife. I've never heard of anyone
having to use an axe.

Then your punkins weren't the real Aussie deal. But pray allow for a
little colonial poetic licence. In pumpkin-eating cultures, though,
they do mature in store, where they lose quite a bit of their water
content and intensify their flavour. You wouldn't want one of those to
fall on your head.

--
Mike.