Pumpkins are not only on everyone's lips on Halloween. They are deliciously preserved for a tasty compote. It doesn't matter whether butternut, nutmeg or giant pumpkin, all of them can be awakened excellently.
Sweet and sour pickled pumpkin is a delicious specialty
Boil pumpkin
You can fill 4 1 liter jars with a 4 kg pumpkin. Besides the squash, you will also need 2-3 pounds of sugar, 1/2 quart vinegar, spices such as lemon, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, cloves.
- Peel the squash generously.
- Scoop out the hay and seeds with a spoon.
- Cut the pumpkin flesh into bite-sized pieces and place them in a bowl.
- Pour 1/8 liter of water and vinegar over each and leave overnight.
- While the squash is draining, prepare a stock. Take the remaining vinegar, 375 ml water, the sugar, the juice of one lemon, vanilla bean and pulp, cinnamon sticks, cloves and possibly a piece of ginger and bring everything to the boil.
- Sterilize the jars, lids and rubbers in boiling water or in the oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes.
- Put the pumpkin pieces in the vinegar-sugar broth and bring everything to a boil.
- Using a slotted spoon, fill the squash into the glasses. The brew is poured over it when it has cooled down.
- The liquid should reach just below the rim of the glass, all pumpkin pieces must be covered.
- Seal the jars.
Wake up in the oven
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the glasses in the dripping pan and pour in enough water so that the glasses are 2 cm in the water. The glasses must not touch each other in the drip pan. After about an hour, the liquid in the glasses will begin to bubble. Turn off the oven and leave the jars in it for another half hour. Then take the glasses out and let them cool under a towel.
Wake up in the alarm kettle
Put the glasses in the cauldron. They must not touch. Pour in enough water so that the glasses stand halfway in the water. When boiling, follow the boiler manufacturer's instructions. Normally you wake up the pumpkins for an hour at 90 degrees. Here, too, the glasses remain in the cauldron for some time and are first taken out when they are lukewarm and covered with a cloth to cool completely.