The easiest way to get the skin off the pumpkin is to slice it into chunks (removing seeds and stringy parts with a large spoon. You can either steam it in a steamer or put water in a large roaster just to cover the bottom of the roaster with a wire rack and place the pumpkin (with skin) on the rack. Cook at 350 degrees for approximately 10 - 15 minutes. You can check by poking a fork through the skin. Take out and cool. Then peel off the skin. This is also a good technique for Hubbard squash that has a very tough skin.
first you make a hole in the top and take all the yucky stuff out then u clean it the u cut a face out then u put a candle in it and put the top back on then u put it on your front door step for Halloween.
Cut a hole around the stem and take it out. Scoop out all seeds and gush from inside, scraping the sides well. Draw out a stencil of what you want to cut on a paper, then tape it to the pumpkin. Use a sharp knife and cut from the stencil in clean strokes.
First using a blade, cut a dome of the top of the pumpkin. Take out the stuffing.
The only tools that you need to carve out a pumpkin with is a knife or scissors. You can also make some beautiful decorations with those tools if you are very creative.
Cut off the top and scoop out the seeds.Peel the rind off of the pumpkin, and cut it into chunks; then boil or roast it. Once cooked, the pumpkin flesh will be easy to mash.
You don't have to cut a face out in a pumpkin if you don' want to. It is just for fun and to make the pumpkin look more interesting :)
There is a cut a pumpkin tutorial at pumpkinworld dot com. They show you how to neatly carve any pumpkin into any face you want. They have templates you can use also.
with a pumpkin carver or knife
You need a machine to cut metal into a pumpkin and that would cost a lot of money.
Pure pumpkin puree. This what you would buy in a can of pumpkin. If you make your own, peal and cut up the pumpkin (no seeds) and then mash it like you would potatoes.
In the Jack o'lantern carving contest at the Halloween party, you draw a funny face on Charlie Brown's bald head, which the girls cut out of the pumpkin in the same shape. You can draw whatever you want and it will work.
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Carving pumpkins is what is done at Halloween time. It means the top of the pumpkin is cut off in a way that it can be put back in its place, the inside is scooped out, and a "face" is cut into the pumpkin.
I enlarged the Mizzou logo, traced onto the pumpkin. I "half way" cut the M and black parts of tiger. I cut the gold portions all the way through. and the white portions were the pumpkin rind. :) Hope that helps. It was definitely a tricky one.
Use stencils to draw outlines onto your pumpkin and then cut along the lines. You can also use paper cutouts of Halloween themes and glue them to the pumpkin. Also you can cut out the top of the pumpkin, remove the seeds and put a candle in the pumpkin.
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