Wilson Banner Ranch - Farm Fresh Produce - Clarkston, Washington

16397 Highway 12, Clarkston, WA 99403 Map
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We welcome you to come enjoy our farm in Clarkston, see where we grow our fruit and meet the farmers. This is a great way to stay connected to your food source and see family farming in action! Be the TOP of the Food Chain, Pick Your Own!

Pumpkin Cooking Tips

  • Fall and winter are the harvesting seasons for this tasty fruit of a trailing vine, another good reason why pumpkin is a popular vegetable for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
  • Choose smaller pumpkins for eating. Sugar pumpkins are usually labeled by the market for cooking purposes as opposed to those used for decorating or Jack-o'-lanterns.
  • Pumpkin seeds, known as pepitas, are often roasted and eaten as snacks. Another by-product, pumpkin seed oil, is normally mixed with other oils for cooking, salad dressings and other uses due to its strong flavor and color.
  • Pumpkin seeds can be toasted on a cookie sheet in the oven at a low temperature. Be sure to stir them often and watch for burning. Some prefer to soak the seeds in salt water before toasting.
  • Shelled pumpkin seeds can be used as a less expensive alternative to pine nuts in recipes.
  • Try cooked mashed pumpkin in cake and muffin recipes for added moisture and texture.
  • Higher temperatures cause pumpkin flesh to become stringy. If you end up with a stringy pumpkin, you can beat the pulp with an electric mixer on high speed for ten seconds and then switch to low speed for sixty seconds. The strings should wrap around the beaters for easy removal.
  • Homemade pureed pumpkin for pies is usually much thinner in texture than canned. To alleviate excess moisture, bake rather than steam or boil the pumpkin. Mash and drain through cheesecloth before using in pies.

Fun Facts About The Pumpkin!

  • Pumpkins are a member of the Cucurbita family which includes squash and cucumbers.
  • Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A. harvest
  • Pumpkin flowers are edible.
  • The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in diameter and weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs and took six hours to bake.
  • In early colonial times, pumpkins wer eused as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
  • Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites.
  • The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds. (as of 2010)
  • The Connecticut field variety is the traditional American pumpkin.
  • Pumpkins are 90 percent water.
  • Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October.
  • Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried them and made mats.
  • Native Americans called pumpkins "isqoutm squash."
  • Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine.

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Fresh Farm Produce - Clarkston Washington

Wilson Banner Ranch
16397 Highway 12, Clarkston, WA 99403
(509) 758-2664

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