"Lynn from Fargo" > wrote in message
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On Oct 11, 7:32 pm, "Pete C." > wrote:
> Mark Thorson wrote:
>
> > "Pete C." wrote:
>
> > > I haven't tried the white pumpkins, however I did at one point many
> > > moons ago get a pumpkin, bake, peel, mash, etc. and make a pie while
> > > in
> > > parallel making a pie with the same recipe but using the Libby's
> > > canned
> > > pumpkin. They were indistinguishable, so from that time forward I have
> > > just bought the canned pumpkin and saves myself a lot of effort.
>
> > If I recall correctly, canned pumpkin is not actually
> > pumpkin. It's some kind of squash, but not pumpkin.
> > They use this squash because it's tastes better or
> > it's easier to process or something.
>
> The only ingredient listed on the can is "pumpkin"

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AFAIK a pumpkin IS a squash. . . the difference being that a pumpkin
is orange inside and out. Acorn, butternut, buttercup, kabocha are
all very different shapes and green on the outside and orange inside.
Who the hell knows what "spaghetti squash is?!?

If I had more time and energy, and someone to eat the results, I would
make a squash pie, a pumpkin pie and a sweet potato pie just to see if
most folks could tell the difference. Anybody ever see a carrot pie?
Lynn in Fargo

When I was a child someone gave my mother a squash that was not a
pumpkin but orange inside. She made a pie following a pumpkin pie recipe
as I recall it was very good.