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Anyone have a pumpkin in storage that needs to be used? Here is a way to use it, AND get a little on the GOOFY SIDE Take a good sized pumpkin, about a 25 or 30 pounder. Cut around the top, like ya was makin a Jac-o-lantern, Lift off the lid, sit it aside. Add: 5 lbs. of sugar 1 pkg. yeast Fill to top with water Take the top and put it in place, seal with tape(any kind) Put the pumpkin in a black garbage bag and hang it in a warm spot for a week or so, till you can feel that it would be easy to poke your finger through the shell near the bottom. Put a small whole in the garbage bag, sit a clean bucket or crock under the hanging pumpkin and poke your finger, a knife,etc. into the pumpkin and let it drain out into the bucket. let your wine sit over night to settle(cover it) siphon the wine into bottles, taking care not to disturb the dregs in the bottom of your bucket, SOUNDS STRANGE, BUT ACTUALLY TASTES LIKE A EXPENSIVE DRY WINE, not like pumpkin!!! Phil
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OMG, that's hilarious! I'm really thinking about trying that! You can do the same thing with a crock, a dark closet and raisins. I believe it used to be called "raisin julip."
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yup, potatoe, onion,rhubarb,corn, turnip, beet, barley, apple,cherry, kiwi,currant,strawberry,blueberry,raspberry,grape orange, lemon, the man is an alcoholic and trust me if its laying around in a bag its gonna get turned to wine or moonshine.
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We love him for sure, the man might have a drinkin problem but he has the biggest heart anyone could have. He is a gambler also, last year he won $25,000 at a bingo and bought my mom a car ($6000) so she could drive him to the liquor store when he wants to go, he never drove in his life(thank god). The kids just adore him. He took the rest of his money and bought his brother a small house to live in because he lost his in a divorce.
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Me again, Phil and Laura, I love the pumpkin wine tip, but just how do you hang a 25 to 30 pound pumpkin full of sugar and water in a black garbage bag? I can barely put my garbage in garbage bag without it busting.
* * * * I am old, and repotting wont help! Plants: 292 | From: Minnesota | Registered: Jan 2004
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Shamarion, the answer is: CAREFULLY !! There are some good strong bags out there, maybe a large store variety Onion bag, then cover it with the black garbage bag to exclude light, I didn't have a problem with mine, maybe I got lucky??
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Yeah, man! Pumpkin wine is yummy...and very easy to make. My late husband was a watermelon/pumpkin man. (Well, that sounded like he was part watermelon, part pumpkin and part man, didn't it?) Actually, he was a produce hauler, specializing in watermelons and pumpkins. He made pumpkin wine in the fall.....while the apples were fermenting in the whiskey barrels for the still we had going in the winter!
Not telling you what we did in the summer!
Cindy Janet
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