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iy yay te See ie i iil ree Pumpkins Can Be Prepared _ As Vegetable, Pickle Or Dessert By JEAN SHARP Canadian Press Women's Editor TORONTO (CP) --- There is something you can do with the insides of a jack-o'-lan- tern. You can toast them for eating. Clean 'off all the fibrous part and mix the seeds with cooking of] and salt -- about 1% tablespoons of oil and one to 1% teaspoons of salt to two cups of seeds, Spread them on a pan and put them in a slow oven, about 250 de- grees, giving them a stir now and then, until they are crisp and brown, Frances Hucks, supervisor of foods and nutrition in the Ontario depariment of agri- culture, says she has never actually tried toasting pump- Sin s€Gua, Yur Gauiimes +t would take about half an hour, She says she thinks it might he fun to try at a Halloween party. Miss Hucks says raw pump- kin is hard to cut and a bother, but if you do want to prepare one for use, you can boil, steam or bake it, "If it's a reasonably small pumpkin, you can bake it whole or cut. it in half, You'll need a hefty butcher knife and possibly a hammer, If you cook it whole, slit a bit to let the steam out; It would take an hour or more to cook, "Then you can serve it as you would squash, After all, pumpkin is a squash, It is served as a vegetable in some parts of Europe. "If you are going to mash it, in case you have some of the stringy bits still in it, I suggest putting it through a ricer." ~ You can freeze pumpkin satisfactorily, but Miss Hucks says the department does not recommend trying to can it without a pressure canner, You can make a cream soup with pumpkin, as you would with tomato or aspara- gus, Miss Hucks says you should add onion and what- ever seasonings you like be- cause pumpkin is bland, 'You can make a squash souffle flavored with spice or candied ginger or grated or- ange rind, USE IN SOUFFLE "Most people do use it In a pie, of course, but you can cook pumpkin pie filling in custard cups rather than in a pie." There is a recipe for spiced sweet pickles, not tested by the department, and one for pumpkin parfait which is used in department demon- strations, Miss Hucks says people are often skeptical of the it but insista they like it when they try it, For the pickles, peel and cut pumpkin in fair + sized cubes, Make a syrup of two JAGUAR TRAVELLER KIT, « ae ee FOR THE TRAVELLER | home. POWER UNIT, operates on single 1.5 velt flashlight cups of vinegar, 1% to two pounds of sugar by cooking it with 4 teaspoon of whole cloves and 4 stick cinnamon for about five minutes, Take out the spices, then put the pumpkin in. the hot syrup or reheat syrup, and bring to a boil, The parfait calla for; 3% tablespoons butter, 3 table apoons brown sugar, 1 cup coarsely crushed graham wa- fers, % cup canned pump: kin, % teaspoon cinnamon, \% teaspoon nutmeg, 4 tear spoon ginger, % teaspoon all spice, 4 teaspoon salt, 1% cup milk, 1 package 3% ounces butterscotch instant pudding, % cup heavy cream | whipped, Melt butter in heavy sauce- pan, Stir in sugar and cook tick (about 0 minutes) Str ring constantly, Add crumbs, stirring until thoroughly coated, Spread in a thin layer on a cookie sheet, When cool, crumble. 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