Did you know

Did you know:

Native American Indians used pumpkin as a staple in their diets centuries before the pilgrims landed.

They also dried strips of pumpkin and wove them into mats.

Pumpkins were grown alongside corn and beans as one of the mythological

Three Sisters of agriculture. Indians would also roast long strips of pumpkin on the open fire and eat them.

When settlers arrived, they saw the pumpkins grown by the Indians and pumpkin soon became a staple in their diets.

As today, early settlers used them in a wide variety of recipes from desserts to stews and soups.

The origin of pumpkin pie is thought to have occurred when the colonists sliced off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, and then filled it with milk, spices and honey.

The pumpkin was then baked in the hot ashes of a dying fire.