The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving - Softcover

Damerow, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882669931 ISBN 13: 9780882669939

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1997

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

About the Author:

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. 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. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0882669931
• ISBN 13: 9780882669939
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224