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by Phil and Laura on January 21, 2004 04:26 AM
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 [perplexed]
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 [muggs]
by Jillie on January 21, 2004 03:38 PM
OMG, that's hilarious! [Big Grin] 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." [thinker]

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by tamara on January 22, 2004 04:35 AM
That's funny. I have an uncle who makes wine out of everything. He said that the only thing that never worked was cucumbers.

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Thinking Spring, Thinking Spring...Nope, doesn't work.lol
by Jillie on January 22, 2004 04:46 AM
Cucumbers!!!!????
What a hoot!
Do you have a list of the wines he's made...?

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by tamara on January 22, 2004 04:53 AM
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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Thinking Spring, Thinking Spring...Nope, doesn't work.lol
by Jillie on January 22, 2004 04:56 AM
OMG, Tamera.....WOW!!!! Doncha just love him?
Is he a character, or what?

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by tamara on January 22, 2004 05:19 AM
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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Thinking Spring, Thinking Spring...Nope, doesn't work.lol
by Jillie on January 22, 2004 03:51 PM
Awwwe, sounds like such an old sweetie... [grin]

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by shamarian on February 01, 2004 03:26 AM
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.

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I am old, and repotting wont help!
by Phil and Laura on February 01, 2004 04:49 PM
Shamarion, the answer is: CAREFULLY !! [Big Grin] [Big Grin] [Big Grin]
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?? [dunno] [grin]
by mich168 on February 05, 2004 10:38 PM
Interesting. I assume you leave the stringy stuff and seeds in the pumpkin??

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by Phil and Laura on February 06, 2004 03:14 PM
YEP, Ya leave all the innerds in! [muggs] [grin] [perplexed]
by weezie13 on February 06, 2004 04:23 PM
Have you ever done a watermellon
with injected liquors??
Vodka's the most popular!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weezie

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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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by Bill on November 01, 2005 12:39 AM
Pumpkin wine??? [shocked]

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by afgreyparrot on November 01, 2005 02:08 AM
Yeah, man! [grin]
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?) [nutz]
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! [Big Grin] [thumb]

Not telling you what we did in the summer! [Big Grin] [shocked] [lala]

Cindy Janet

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