Synopses & Reviews
Pumpkins are jack-o'-lanterns, and so much more!
This Native American favorite can be cooked, eaten, used as a container, fed to livestock, raised for profit, and cultivated for record-breaking competitions. Discover and enjoy the many facets of pumpkins:
* Growing and harvesting techniques including the secrets of how to grow giant pumpkins
* Step-by-step craft and carving projects, from unique jack-o-lanterns to soaps, creams, and decorations
* Mouth-watering recipes, including muffins and breads, pies and tortes, fudge, and even pumpkin beer
* Tips on successful winter storage, including freezing, canning, and drying
Review
"...I believe this could be the best book ever published on pumpkins."
—Howard Dill, breeder of 'Dill's Atlantic Giant' pumpkins, Windsor, Nova Scotia
Synopsis
The big orange pumpkin is no longer just for Halloween Gail Damerow shows you how to cultivate more than 95 varieties of pumpkin, and provides recipes for pumpkin pies, muffins, and even pumpkin beer. You ll also learn how to use pumpkins in a variety of craft projects, from carving unique jack-o -lanterns to creating pumpkin-scented creams and soaps. With tips on growing giant pumpkins, preserving your harvest through the winter, and much more, The Perfect Pumpkin will delight pumpkin lovers of all sensibilities."
Synopsis
Includes information for growing and harvesting more than 95 varieties of pumpkins, plus craft and carving projects from jack-o-lanterns to soaps, creams, and decorations. Also includes more than 30 tasty recipes—even one for pumpkin beer!
Synopsis
Learn how to grow and harvest more than 95 varieties of pumpkins, and then use them in any number of ways--carve fabulous jack o'lanterns, make luxurious pumpkin soap and bath oil, and enjoy more than 30 delicious recipes, including Pumpkin Brioche, Pumpkin-Tomato Soup with Basil, Fried Pumpkin Blossoms, Double Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Bourbon, and even Pumpkin Beer!
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203) and index.
About the Author
Gail Damerow, author of The Chicken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition, has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen country skills how-to books, including the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, and Hatching and Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry and Countryside magazines. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard.
Table of Contents
Introducing the Versatile Pumpkin
1. The Great American Pumpkin
2. Fruit of Many Faces
3. The Pumpkin Patch
4. The Big One
5. Pumpkin Pests
6. Pumpkin Arts and Crafts
7. Pumpkin Eater
Appendix
Recommended Reading
Organizations
Carving Supplies
Carving Contests
Pumpkin Seed Sources
Converting Recipe Measurements to Metric
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