I have loads of butternut quash. When cooked they taste like Sweet potoes.
Has anybody made a pie out of them ?
Got a resipe to shair ?

When made into a pie it is very difficult to tell difference from pumpkin pie.

That was my thoughts

i found a resipe for sweet potato pie.
gona ive it a try.

Use it just like pumpkin.

A lot of commercially canned pumpkin is really Butternut squash. Use and enjoy.

Hmmm...

There you go, Newt...it will be amazing.

Love butternut squash.

I have made pie from butternut squash, like they said it is a dead ringer for pumpkin. Also made a pie out of zucchini squash that was the same as apple.

Not only does taste like pumpkin (with the spices), it is much easier to skin and cube.

Sounds good.

Just like bacon... enough sugar and butter in a pie filling makes it great. My wife makes alot of soup and loves butternut, but I never found so much difference with all the different squashes/pumpkins in a soup.

Yours might just be alot better. Don't forget the nutmeg. I used to grow them but they took up too much real estate in the garden and I can buy them cheap here.

Happy Thanksgiving from France.

Pete

OK, the wife says I'm nuts. She says they are the hardest; toughest skin and difficult to handle.

So... My technique:

• cut the "neck" off at the bulb. This is the riskiest cut. Just make sure you have a good grip on it and make a square cut.
• Stand the neck up on the cut.
• slice the skin off working all the way around, leaving a huge slab of meat I use a chef's knife, but have heard a potato peeler works.
• cut that slab into `1 inch slabs.
• Dice the slabs either individually or in manageable stacks.
• Gut it
• Stand the bulb up on the cut
• Skin it
• Depending on its intended use, you can slice it into "pineapple" slices and dice; or wedges and dice.

One more thought:

I feed the guts to the chickens, but you could certainly make a nice vegetable broth by boiling and straining it.

Interesting. I have found pumpkins very easy to make into pie. Slice in half, gut, place cut down on a flat sheet pan, bake, then scoop out the finished pumpkin from the skin with a large spoon. Just took a finished pie out of the oven. Can't wait for it to cool and I can dig in!

Crockpot works great for cooking squash too

I think she is mistaking butternut squash for buttercup squash....them things have armor skin but are the sweetest of the bunch in my experience

Realistically, nothing is all that hard with the right tricks.

my 84 year old mother swears butternut squash make better pumpkin pies than pumpkins do.
RR

most commercial pumpkin is butter nut squash

Thought I was full from Thanksgiving dinner, read this thread and I'm hungry again. Mmmmmm squash