Hubbard Squash - What is this wart covered mutant pumpkin?

[mindlessobserver]

Answer: the secret weapon of fall.

The thing looks weird, you will see it pop up in grocery stores about now and idiots will use it for fall decoration. Dont. This thing is inexpensive and an absolute marvel. It is sweeter then a pumpkin, by weight has more "meat", none of that weird stringy shit, and the seeds are compact in the core and easily removed. Unlike the pumpkin.

All recipes for pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cheese cake...whatever, can be followed using hubbard squash. And by doing this they will all, no exceptions, be easier to make, have more of it per gourd, and taste better.

Try using a hubbard squash this fall instead. I will be.

 

[Admiral Mantoid]

Based and Gourdpilled.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I remember hearing somewhere the 99% of the canned "pumpkin" available out there isn't actually pumpkin and is some other gourd.

Maybe they use this little guy.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I remember hearing somewhere the 99% of the canned "pumpkin" available out there isn't actually pumpkin and is some other gourd.

Maybe they use this little guy.

They do, though more specifically they use this and the primary cultivar of the species. Hubbard's are a type of "Buttercup squash". The Hubbard is noted for being slightly bigger and better tasting, but is still largely unique to the United States. The regular version of the Buttercup Squash is grown around the world, but mosty in south America, which is the source of most industrial "pumpkin" products.

 

[WonderWino]

One of my favorites. Speaking of which, straight out of my garden:

I'm always surprised at how many people don't realize how good hubbard squash is. Not to mention how easy it is to grow

 

[Trombonista]

For some reason I clicked on this thread with a mental image of a turban squash. Would you say Hubbard is better?

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

No wonder people don't like it, it looks like Russel Greer, lumps and all. But it actually sounds delicious and much more useful than its drooly doppelganger.

 

[Deadwaste]

this squash is the pumpkin's retarded disfigured cousin

 

[Trombonista]

We currently have blue hubbard squash at my store.

 

[Coffee Druid]

I remember back when I used to volunteer at the pumpkin patch in my town as a kid, where we also sold other gourds and things. I used to always wonder what the purpose of those small squashes. Decoration? Seems like a waste. Do people eat them?

 

[mindlessobserver]

I'm in business! Grocery store had one hidden in an assortment of various gourds

 

[Honored guest]

I love growing squash but vine borers usually kill all my plants before they set fruit, for some reason they really like hubbard so growing that is a no go. For anyone with similar problems look into the squash species known as Moschata You won't be growing any pumpkins but some of these squash look close enough (Dickinson pumpkin) and theres a large enough diversity in shapes, and flavors that any squash lover should be able to find a variety they like.

I remember hearing somewhere the 99% of the canned "pumpkin" available out there isn't actually pumpkin and is some other gourd.

Maybe they use this little guy.

I know the Dickinson pumpkin is a large part of the pumpkin canning industry

I remember back when I used to volunteer at the pumpkin patch in my town as a kid, where we also sold other gourds and things. I used to always wonder what the purpose of those small squashes. Decoration? Seems like a waste. Do people eat them?

They're edible, but outside of starvation no one eats them. I don't really view them as waste since they'll grow almost anywhere without any help, I've had them sprout up randomly in my yard and even with poor soil and no watering they'll produce multiple gourds.

 

[kcbbq]

I love Hubbard's for pie.

More pumpkin than pumpkins. Om nom nom.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Oh boy here we go

Look at the inside of this sexy hole.

Shits gonna be fire

Roasted for half an hour at 425. Mashed with a potato masher



Saved most my excess in zip locks. Followed generic Pumpkin Pie recipe with my puree as stand in for canned pumpkin. #blessthismess

I saved the seeds and roasted them.



20 minutes left on the baking. All in all took me about 1.5 hours to break down the squash and prepare the pie.

Hnnng