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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 2003
Page
7
Halloween features pumpkins as large orange melons, brightening yards each fall. Most pumpkins weigh five to thirty pounds and consist of about ninety percent water. The name pumpkin derives from a Greek word meaning large melon, reflecting their round to egg shaped shells.
Pumpkins grow on trailing vines in the gourd family and are popularly used for pumpkin pie, bread, muffins, soup and pudding. They originated in Central America with seeds dating back to 7000 B C in Mexico, later known to Europeans via French and Spanish explorers.
The most popular Halloween custom is carving jack o lanterns. Originating in Ireland with turnips and gourds, people hollowed them and placed a candle inside to ward off evil spirits. In the United States pumpkins proved larger and easier to carve, giving rise to jack o lanterns.
The Halloween pumpkin name stems from an Irish tale about a stingy man named Jack who could not enter heaven after death. He wandered in darkness, carrying a glowing coal inside a hollow turnip as his lantern.
A simple pumpkin bread recipe by Rookie Cookie. It lists ingredients including sugar, oil, eggs, pumpkin, flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and optional walnuts. Instructions cover greasing pans, mixing, combining dry and wet ingredients, pour into pans, and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes to an hour.
Andrew Stanton aged 37 crafts stories into films at Pixar Animation Studios. His best known work Finding Nemo centers on Marlin the clown fish searching for his son. Stanton grew up in Rockport Massachusetts and studied at the California Institute of the Arts. The Nemo idea drew on a dentist tank memory and his experience as a father. He and his wife have two children.
A compact guide outlines pumpkin growth from late June or July planting to Halloween harvest. It explains male and female flowers on vines, bees as pollinators, and one-day female bloom pollination. Steps cover seed saving, planting in hills, spacing, thinning, fertilizing, watering, harvesting, and labeling pumpkins with names during growth.
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