The Portion of my Inheritance

After the squash bugs got through with my garden I ended up with 7 pumpkins. Then to my dismay I had to pull the rest of the vines up because those nasty little critters had destroyed them.  

This past week Andrea and I started the process of canning the pumpkins.          

After gumps cut the pumpkins up, I cleaned out the seeds and stringy stuff from the inside.     

Into the oven it went, at 400 degrees for about 45 mins. to an hour.    

I baked it until the flesh was soft.

I scraped out all the flesh from the pumpkin and put it in a food processor to puree.  I also ran it through my blender just to get a smoother, thinner texture.

I pushed it through a sieve to get out all the extra juice. 

Then into my jars that I had already washed and sterilized.

I put the lid on tightly and into the bath it goes for about 20 mins. 

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few, therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”                Matthew 9:37-38