{"id":1533,"date":"2018-10-11T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T07:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T07:58:29","slug":"pumpkin-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/pumpkin-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Carving in Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a line from a poem written by Massachusetts settler that goes;
\n\u201cWe have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon, if it were not for pumpkins we should be undone.\u201d<\/em> It is truly that Halloween pumpkin boasts a celebrity status in the United States and European Countries. Halloween is nothing without Pumpkin and Pumpkin Carving.<\/p>\n

Random view through Pumpkin & it\u2019s History:<\/strong>
\nAn orange fruit \u201cPumpkin\u201d harvested in October, this nutritious and versatile plant features flowers, seeds and flesh that are edible and rich in vitamins. Pumpkins are 90% water and a hundred grams of Pumpkin gives you 26 calories, 0.1 gm total fat, no cholesterol, 340 mg potassium and 7 gm carbohydrate. Pumpkins have been grown in North America for five thousand years. They are indigenous to the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Halloween and Pumpkin Carving
\n(Interesting Halloween Pumpkin Facts and Figures)
\n\"Pumpkin
\n<\/strong>Halloween Pumpkin Carving in the Past: <\/strong>
\nThese traditions come with a history of immigrants from Ireland and Scotland entering America in the 1800s and bringing the tradition of carving pumpkins instead of turnips as their wonderful soft flesh was easy to curve and thus came the existence of pumpkin jack-o-lanterns that are a house hold creation in United States.
\nIt is believed that the custom of making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween began in\u00a0Ireland.\u00a0In the 19th century, “turnips or mangel wurzels, hollowed out to act as lanterns and often carved with grotesque faces,” were used at Halloween in parts of Ireland and the\u00a0Scottish Highlands.
\n<\/strong>One Interesting thing that we knew during study of Halloween Pumpkins and History that is;
\nIn 1866, the children\u2019s magazine \u201cHarper\u2019s Young People\u201d reported that \u201ca great sacrifice of pumpkins\u201d had been made that for that year\u2019s Halloween celebrations.
\nPumpkin carving grew more and more popular as the years went on. By the 1920s, Halloween had been embraced throughout the United States. Parties and costumes became the norm, and \u201ctrick or treating\u201d soon followed in the mid-1930s.
\nMassachusetts farmer John Howden developed the Howden pumpkin in the 1960s, and it is still the most popular carving pumpkin in America.<\/p>\n

Pumpkin Carving in Present Days:
\n<\/strong>Pumpkin carving is become a multi-million dollar industry; American Farmers have for many years explored new ideas to breed new lines of squash especially for carving. There are many creative ways Pumpkin can be incorporated into meals, including desserts, soups, salads, preserves and even as a substitute for butter; which can be called as “Pumpkin Butter”, etc.
\nOn the occasion of Halloween, Bakeries and Coffee Shops stocks their shelves with pumpkin flavored threats, from muffins and lattes to ravioli.
\nYou may found many of things that are directly or indirectly linked with Pumpkin in Halloween. So, there is no doubt if we say Halloween is nothing without Pumpkin.
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\n(Note; This Blog is based on following articles and we are very gratefully adopted many knowledge and Information from them; \u201cPumpkin and Spice and Everything Nice<\/em>\u201d by Samyuktha Banera, \u201cThe Halloween Pumpkin: An American History\u201d<\/em> by Stephanie Butler, \u201cPumpkin Facts<\/em>\u201d, \u201cJack-o’-lantern\u201d<\/em> from Wikipedia and Others.)<\/p>\n

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There is a line from a poem written by Massachusetts settler that goes; \u201cWe have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon, if it were not for pumpkins we should be undone.\u201d It is truly that Halloween pumpkin boasts a celebrity status in the United States and European Countries. Halloween is nothing without Pumpkin and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[865,866],"tags":[913,914,915,911,912],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savinggain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}