Cooking with Pumpkin

Pumpkin recipes are in the news in October and November, e.g., “Pumpkin Recipes for Fall” (San Antonio Express), “Beyond Pumpkin Pie” (Chicago Sun-Times), “Pumpkin: It’s Not Just for Pies” (Coloradoan), “Recipes: Passion for Pumpkin” (The Scotsman), “Making Love in the Kitchen: Episode 62, Puree That Pumpkin” (National Post),  “Nigel Slater’s Pumpkin, Tomato and Cannellini Soup . . . .” (The Guardian), “Roasted Pumpkin Risotto with Fresh Sage and Parmesan” (NBC Connecticut), and Martha Stewart’s “Pumpkin Perfections: Bread Pudding, Doughnut Muffins” (MSNBC).

Browsing the Relative Index for “pumpkins” yields:

Pumpkins                                       641.3562
Pumpkins—botany                           583.63
Pumpkins—commercial processing       664.80562
Pumpkins—cooking                           641.6562
Pumpkins—food                               641.3562
Pumpkins—garden crop                     635.62

General works on cooking with pumpkin are classed in 641.6562 Cooking with pumpkin and squash (built with 641.6 Cooking specific materials plus 562 from 635.62 Squashes and pumpkins as garden crop, following instructions at 641.63–641.67 Cooking food derived from plant crops and domesticated animals), e.g., Pumpkin: A Super Food for All 12 Months of the Year, Pumpkins & Squashes: Transform Your Menu and Create Inspirational Meals with the Most Versatile of Vegetables, and A Harvest of Pumpkins and Squash: Seasonal Recipes. All three works have the LCSH “Cooking (Pumpkin).”  Among the recipes in the last work are “Sunflower-Shaped Pumpkin Bread, Loaves, and Rings,” “Mashed Pumpkin in Zig-Zag Orange Shells,” “Five-Spice Pork Tenderloin with Pumpkin Half-Moons and Red Grapes,” and “Caramel-Glazed Pumpkin-Date Bars.”

Works on cooking a specific pumpkin dish are classed in 641.8 Cooking specific kinds of dishes and preparing beverages, as instructed by the class-elsewhere note under 641.6 Cooking specific materials: “Class specific kinds of dishes featuring specific materials in 641.8.”  Class-elsewhere notes have hierarchical force and thus affect the subdivisions of 641.6 and 641.8.  An example of a work focusing on a specific dish is How Did that Get to My Table?  Pumpkin Pie. The summary reads: “Looks at how pumpkins are grown and harvested, explains how the fruit is processed at the factory and made into pies, discusses how pumpkin pies are made at home, and shows how pies get to stores.”  Since the work covers a broader topic than just cooking pumpkin pie, one might be tempted by the interdisciplinary number for pumpkins—the number opposite the unsubdivided Relative Index entry for pumpkins; it is also the interdisciplinary number for pumpkins as food: 641.3562 Pumpkins and squashes (built with 641.3 Food plus 562 from 635.62 Squashes and pumpkins as garden crop, following instructions at 641.33–641.35 Specific food from plant crops).  At 641.3 Food, however, is the see reference:  “For interdisciplinary works on specific dishes, see 641.8.”  Since see references have hierarchical force, interdisciplinary works on pumpkin pie are classed in the same number as works on cooking pumpkin pie: 641.8652 Pies and tarts.

Comments

[Libbie]

Love the post.