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Cooking & Baking

NRaleighLiberal

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3. You should be able to tell once you cut them - if the flesh is a good color and thick

Reply to FSogol (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:34 PM

Nov 2015

and they bake to a tender state, they should be fine. good luck!

Be sure to save the seeds - I like to coat with a bit of oil then lots of spices - and sugar, depending if you want them spicy/chile type for snacking, or use sugar and cinnamon for sweeter snacks. we love them both ways - use them in soups as a topping.

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Pumpkin/Squash. Look at these photos. Are these types edible? [View all] FSogol Nov 2015 OP

They should all be fine used as pumpkins - NRaleighLiberal Nov 2015 #1

Thanks. I do that for a lot of types of squash, but never encountered these types FSogol Nov 2015 #2

You should be able to tell once you cut them - if the flesh is a good color and thick NRaleighLiberal Nov 2015 #3

I do that too. I put a little salt and cayenne pepper for snacking. FSogol Nov 2015 #4

They look like perfectly normal squashes to me Retrograde Nov 2015 #5

They are pumpkins and squashes, therefore, by definition, are inedible Fortinbras Armstrong Nov 2015 #6

What is somewhat interesting Snobblevitch Nov 2015 #7