Do they buy them from Hindinger's Farm (a local, Hamden, family owned farm) or elsewhere? Just wondering before I buy my big Jack-O-Lantern. I'm all for supporting the work churches do but I'm also about supporting the folk in town trying to make a living.
I made pumpkin butter with my pumpkins - a very handy staple for cooking, baking! You can can it - freeze it - I just made cupcakes using a cake mix, adding 1 c pumpkin butter, some cream cheese, cider instead of water, 2 eggs - and they turned out great - the pumpkin taste is really good. You don't need oil. You can find a lot of recipes for pumpkin butter. What I did first was bake the pumpkin in a 350 degree oven - take it out when it is soft - scoop out the seeds, cut it up and put in a crock pot and add the sugar and seasonings for pumpkin butter - let it cook down like apple butter and yum - a handy, healthy staple for baking especially.