Pumpkins pumpkins everywhere

[Toddy]

These look amazing but wonder how they would work with glutenfree flour and what else I would have to add to the dough to be successful
Think the string idea is a bit faffy. I can see someone saying "why is there a bit of string in my roll!?" I may give these a go tho they will have to be given away to friends if I use propper flour. Thanks.

I eat gluten free too, and I'm wondering about the flour for these as well.
I think I'll give it a go with the Lauche's stuff, maybe.... and I think the string method makes nicer looking 'pumpkins' than the scissor cuts, but not so sure about the footer of removing it afterwards.
I wonder if the rolls could be risen plain and at the last minute just before they go into the oven, they could be pressed into with the edge of a silicon spatula to give the 'segmented' kind of look.

Got to be worth playing with though

 

[Woody girl]

I eat gluten free too, and I'm wondering about the flour for these as well.
I think I'll give it a go with the Lauche's stuff, maybe.... and I think the string method makes nicer looking 'pumpkins' than the scissor cuts, but not so sure about the footer of removing it afterwards.
I wonder if the rolls could be risen plain and at the last minute just before they go into the oven, they could be pressed into with the edge of a silicon spatula to give the 'segmented' kind of look.

Got to be worth playing with though

That sounds a good idea but I think you'd need to give it a rise with the indents in or they may not separate into sections properly. I could be wrong but as you say worth a play... oops jus gone back on my reply to nice65! Tee hee

 

[Janne]

Take a small one, cut the top off, remove seeds, fill with wild meats ( pidgeon, wood cock, duck, swan, rabbit, hare, iguana, , whatever you fancy)
chopped tomatoes, herbs, garlic, salt & peppa, Cayenne and slow roast in oven on low heat overnight.

 

[Robson Valley]

Bake with the cotton string. Give your guests a pair of scissors. Enjoy watching the struggle.
No bits of string = find the end and the whole thing unwinds!

I bake stuffed, skinless/boneless chicken thighs, a pie plate at a time (8-12). Tied shut with cotton string.
No knots needed but finding the ends of the string is the same entertainment for me.

 

[Toddy]

Having cooked string tied roasts for a very long time, I can say that the answer is simple....you tie a big bow in the end and it pulls out just fine.
Butchers here tie with a "Butcher's Knot".....
https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/butchers-knot

and since the knots are kind of obvious (they seem to take pride in making the whole row tidy and in line) one just snips or slices to the side of the knot and pulls the string free.

M

 

[Nice65]

Did mamma never tell you not to play with your food!

She did, but I’m afraid I still can’t resist flicking peas to this day.

 

[Woody girl]

She did, but I’m afraid I still can’t resist flicking peas to this day.

Oh lordy that's just reminded me of the school peas. Little bullets they were. We used to put them in our pockets rather than eat them and use them as ammo on our teachers.. ruler clamped under the desk lid.. pea on the end ..and ping it at the blackboard when teachers back was turned. The idea was to get a pea on the board just in front of where he was writing... not that I ever did it of course. Hmmm

 

[Billy-o]

If the pumpkins are ripe then they should keep for several months as they are, if kept dry and cool.

Ordinarily yes, but two of ours filled up with water this year .. or started to break down from the inside and went liquid. Not seen that before.

 

[Woody girl]

Ordinarily yes, but two of ours filled up with water this year .. or started to break down from the inside and went liquid. Not seen that before.

Did you leave a long handle (stalk) on them when you picked them and we're they fully ripe? Sometimes that affects how well they store.

 

[Janne]

Oh lordy that's just reminded me of the school peas. Little bullets they were. We used to put them in our pockets rather than eat them and use them as ammo on our teachers.. ruler clamped under the desk lid.. pea on the end ..and ping it at the blackboard when teachers back was turned. The idea was to get a pea on the board just in front of where he was writing... not that I ever did it of course. Hmmm

You should have progresses to a cut down length of a drinking straw.
Just long enough to get a decent V0, but short enough to be quickly retractable by the tongue into the oral cavity.....

Slimy chewed up bits of paper worked well too. The best was blotting paper.
( not many of you have even seen one I assume?)

I never targeted teachers though. Girls or that boy with glasses.

I used to grow squash, and they kept well if I placed them above ground on a straw bunch, and let them stay on the stalk until the leaves started getting dry. But had to be picked before the first frost.

 

[Woody girl]

We had to dump the peas somewhere. We still had the cane in my day so it was payback time. We never went for the nice teachers. Just the bully boy teachers. They could never pin it on anyone as we ALL had peas in our pockets.

 

[Janne]

In Sweden we were never caned. Rulerred only.

 

[Toddy]

A Lochgelly Tawse.....that was a leather strap, over quarter of an inch thick, two feet long, couple of inches wide of hard hide. It was used to belt children's hands.
It was not unknown for an angry teacher to slap it down on a desk and crack the desk in two.....karate had nothing on a irritated dominie with a 'belt'.

Himself's is still up the loft. They sell for a lot of money now. Heaven knows why, horrible thing whose only roll was to hurt a child.

M

 

[Nice65]

A Lochgelly Tawse.....that was a leather strap, over quarter of an inch thick, two feet long, couple of inches wide of hard hide. It was used to belt children's hands.
It was not unknown for an angry teacher to slap it down on a desk and crack the desk in two.....karate had nothing on a irritated dominie with a 'belt'.

Himself's is still up the loft. They sell for a lot of money now. Heaven knows why, horrible thing whose only roll was to hurt a child.

M

Well off topic, our headmaster had a few canes, the most feared of which was a split bamboo. Never saw it, or heard of it used, or even if it really existed, but nonetheless it was legendary for the pain it could inflict.

It was the wooden board rubbers that flew across the classroom that were a definite danger. Possibly the result of small, sticky, chewed up blotting paper balls fired through biro tubes at the blackboard while the teacher was writing.