I have just found seeds for a new variety of pumpkin, one I've never seen in any market.though I have seen it in a few garden catalogues which handle oddities. The Mexican call it "calabaza de castilla" It is as unlike all other supermarket pumpkins as an UFO is different from an airplane. First, it is more lobular (like this photo) than regular squash. It looks like those Aztec pumpkin statues, the ones at the MUSEO....carved, circular, pipelike round lobes with perfect linear indent, and shiny skin like cafe au lait creamy, pastel bronze enamel paint. (NOT a true orange like this photograph,) Then the entire thing is kind of collapsed as if it were melting in the sun! Slightly pancaked, Flattened. Very dramatic. THE FLESH is darker orange than normal pumpkins so it must be very healthful to eat! (High in anti-oxidants and Vitamin A). And big ole seeds, probably delicious too. A guaranteed vermifuge, too! In case your family likes SUSHI!
If you want seeds to the AZTEC MELTING PUMPKIN, I will send them to you along with a few pckgs of the usual suspects, (my tradebeads,) Slutflowers, Ugli Tree, (grapefruit on the outside tangarine on the inside, a citrus sport) Turkish Mulberry tree, Canna Lillies, and the 14 foot tall Magenta Hollyhocks. And regular Halloween pumpkins. All free to you. I pay for envelope but you must send the stamps to me FIRST at 7900 Zelzah Ave, RESEDA CA 91335. And I will be sending you a field full of next Summer's most dramatic garden statuary, the CASTILLA PUMPKIN by return post.
This pumpkin is guaranteed to be so unusual you will not want to carve
it into jack-o-lanterns, You will probably do as I do with my pumpkins,
I litter living room/ dining room tables with them, all summer, autumn,
winter long. And you will gift them to astonished friends. Anita
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PUMPKIN SOUP - Fry cut up sausage. Remove. Paper-Towel dry pan
to remove fat, leaving any crust. Add olive oil. Heat well then put in
sliced onions, celery, l jalapeno, bell pepper. When slightly wilted, add
pre-cooked pumpkin flesh, mashing as you add it. Add milk or broth to bring
it to soup consistency, cilantro or parsley. Cook a few minutes, mashing
pumpkin. Add the sausage pieces now. At the IVY cafe, they have no lumps
in it. It looks like orange butterscotch pudding. Costs 5$ a bowl! You'll
make it for 20c a bowl!
CAT OR DOG FOOD. Simmer meat until soft. Burger or Sale chicken.
39c lb currently in LA CALIF. Cool to Skim fat off. Or leave overnight,
lift fat scum off, keep in a coffee can in fridge for fat. You can
do nice things with it SEE:. CHICKEN
LIVERS, SOAP. To make petfood, first, separately simmer
pumpkin til soft. (YOu don't want chicken fat all over the pumpkin meat.
When meat has boiled, pull meat out, let broth cool so fat collects on
top. Spoon/scoop fat into coffee can. Cool pumpkin. Spoon-scoop orange
flesh from shell, adding to meat. Cut the two together so that animal
cannot separate his meat from his squash. To make sure pumpkin tastes
good, in the tossing, cover the squash with meat broth or juices. I often
add garlic powder, like a 1/4 teaspoon to the mix. Vermifuge.