Peter , Peter pumpkin eater , Had a wife but could n’t keep her;He put her in a Cucurbita pepo shellAnd there he maintain her very well .
Have you ever sung the “ Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater ” song ? It was first published inMother Goose ’s Quarto , Or Melodies Complete , in Boston , Mass. , around 1825 . harmonise toThe Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes , it ’s the American version of a Scotch nursery rime that goes like this :
Peter , my neeper , Had a wife , And he couidna ’ keep her , He pat her i ’ the wa’,And latissimus dorsi a ’ the shiner run through her .
Uzzi and I like the American reading best !
Pumpkinsaren’t just for housing wives andcarving diddley - o’-lanterns . They taste good , too ! Did you know that pumpkins are loaded with an important antioxidant shout beta - carotine that your dead body converts to vitamin A ? Pumpkin is low in calories , high in dietetic fiber , and a good source of vitamins and mineral , too .
Native Americans along the East Coast grew pumpkin and learn Colonial Americans togrowand eat them . According to the University of Illinois Extension ’s groovy websitePumpkins and More , settler slice the tops off of pumpkins , scooped out the seeds and pulp , and take them Milk River , spices and honey . They baked the pumpkins in ashes on their fireside and though the results were morepudding - likethan today ’s version , these were the firstpumpkin pies .
The Guinness Book of World Records order the prominent Cucurbita pepo pie ever created matter 2,020 pound and measured 12 foundation long . It was made by New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers at the New Bremen Pumpkinfest in Ohio on October 8 , 2005 . They used 1,212 Syrian pound of transcribed pumpkin , 109 gal of evaporated milk , 2,796 bollock , 7 pound of salinity , 14½ pound of cinnamon and 525 pounds of sugar to make it .
But cooking with pumpkin does n’t always imply pie . Just for starter you may make it intosouporchili , pickle it , stuff it , make it intopancakes , or bake it inbread , patty , cupcake , biscuitsorcookies .
According to an article bring out by theColonial Williamsburg Foundation , the most common way Colonial Americans serve Cucurbita pepo was to stew them . In 1672 , a visitor to New England wrote that , “ The Housewives manner is to slice up them when ripe , and cut them into dice , and so fill a pot with them of two or three gallon , and stew them upon a patrician fire a whole day , and as they fall off , they replete again with fresh Pompions , not cast any liquor to them ; and when it is stew’d enough , it will look like bak’d Apples ; this they dish up , set Butter to it , and a little Vinegar , ( with some Spice , as Ginger , & c. ) which makes it tart like an Apple . ”
pumpkin vine were so important in Colonial America that poem from the 1630s aver :
Stead of potage and puddings and custard and piesOur pumpkins and parsnips are common supply , We have pumpkins at dawning and autumn pumpkin at noon , If it were not for pumpkins we should be undoon .
University of Illinois says that nowadays 90 to 95 percent of the pumpkins grown in the United States are get in Illinois . Other major autumn pumpkin - grow states are Ohio , Pennsylvania and California . These pumpkins are grow and canned for human food . In the olden days , people grew pumpkins for their animate being , too . To feed pumpkins to farm animal and poultry , simply break away the pumpkins capable and countenance the animals have at them .
We love pumpkins . Yum !
