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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
White Corn
White corn is a sweet corn variety. Its ears are wrapped in tightly layered pale lime green to white husks. One ear of corn can contain up to 400 kernels growing in rows lengthwise.
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Seasons/Availability
Popular for Halloween and Thanksgiving, festive pumpkins are available early October through November. A truly unique pumpkin, just imagine the novel jack-o'-lantern made from this pumpkin's natural ghostly look to celebrate Halloween.
Description/Taste
White pumpkins a unique and ornamental with orange flesh that offers a mild flavor.
Nutritional Value
Offering vitamin A, pumpkin contains vitamin C, potassium, fiber and some iron.
Applications
Perfect for decorating, white pumpkins are rapidly becoming a favorite for Halloween. Sporting a white skin, this unusual pumpkin provides a natural "ghostly" color for painting scary faces. Pumpkins make delicious custard, pies, bars, cookies, muffins, soup and various tasty pumpkin-flavored desserts. Although white on the exterior, surprisingly, this white pumpkin's flesh is orange and has excellent flavor. Joining classic orange pumpkins, the festive white pumpkin offers an attractive contrast when used as an ornamental decoration especially for fall holidays. Use the same as squash. Pumpkins are subject to chilling at low temperatures.
Geography/History
In the United States, pumpkin is mainly served as a dessert. In Australia, it is a main course meal, very rarely used in sweets. In Belgium, pumpkins are used mainly as decoration. In North China, pumpkin isn't eaten; in South China, it is. In Canton, pumpkin is used to make soup, congee and other dishes. In Shandong province, there is a factory that makes pumpkin flour, a favorite culinary item in Japan. White pumpkins are specially bred for their white color and have a relatively short growing period yielding about nine ghostly pumpkins per plant in eighty days.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Pumpkins Lumina (White). One
is easiest, three is harder.
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Seasons/Availability
Popular for Halloween and Thanksgiving, festive pumpkins are available early October through November. A truly unique pumpkin, just imagine the novel jack-o'-lantern made from this pumpkin's natural ghostly look to celebrate Halloween.
Description/Taste
White pumpkins a unique and ornamental with orange flesh that offers a mild flavor.
Nutritional Value
Offering vitamin A, pumpkin contains vitamin C, potassium, fiber and some iron.
Applications
Perfect for decorating, white pumpkins are rapidly becoming a favorite for Halloween. Sporting a white skin, this unusual pumpkin provides a natural "ghostly" color for painting scary faces. Pumpkins make delicious custard, pies, bars, cookies, muffins, soup and various tasty pumpkin-flavored desserts. Although white on the exterior, surprisingly, this white pumpkin's flesh is orange and has excellent flavor. Joining classic orange pumpkins, the festive white pumpkin offers an attractive contrast when used as an ornamental decoration especially for fall holidays. Use the same as squash. Pumpkins are subject to chilling at low temperatures.
Geography/History
In the United States, pumpkin is mainly served as a dessert. In Australia, it is a main course meal, very rarely used in sweets. In Belgium, pumpkins are used mainly as decoration. In North China, pumpkin isn't eaten; in South China, it is. In Canton, pumpkin is used to make soup, congee and other dishes. In Shandong province, there is a factory that makes pumpkin flour, a favorite culinary item in Japan. White pumpkins are specially bred for their white color and have a relatively short growing period yielding about nine ghostly pumpkins per plant in eighty days.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Pumpkins Lumina (White). One
is easiest, three is harder.| Farmgirl Fare |
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Spicy Pumpkin Pecan Raisin Muffins |
