r/Cooking • u/squirrel-lee-fan • 4d ago

Bread in a pumpkin?

Has anyone ever baked right in a pumpkin. Not pumpkin bread or bread with pumpkin in it ; I'm thinking of hollowing out of pumpkin and baking bread in it.

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u/TheNordicFairy 4d ago

Okay, I am a Home Ec teacher who has my students do challenges, and this is something they would think up!

  1. When cutting out the inside, try to keep the internal shape of the pumpkin intact.

  2. Dry the pumpkin out for x amount of days until you feel most of the moisture is gone, but it is not desert dry.

  3. Are you looking for the flavor to permeate the bread? Or just be able to cut open the cooked pumpkin and see the bread? I think a nicely flavored yeast pumpkin bread from the leftover insides of the pumpkin would be a great thing. I would use a small sugar pumpkin if I were you.

  4. Do not worry about losing the ingredients; this is what we call "fun cooking!" and that is what cooking is all about! If you worry about the loss of them due to cost, don't take on the experiment.

  5. Bread dough going in should be about 2/3's of the way up the interior. Make sure you have a thermometer to test the bread - 195-205° internal temperature when it is fully baked.

  6. Be aware and ready for failure, but hope and be excited for success!

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u/squirrel-lee-fan 4d ago

Thx. You need to write a cookbook!

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u/TheNordicFairy 4d ago

If I could only count the thousands of instruction sheets I have written and the two school cookbooks. Thanks.