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Spiced freezer pumpkin butter in its finished form.

Spiced freezer pumpkin butter

Spiced freezer pumpkin butter: Freeze for winter; small fresh portion refrigerated up to 48 hours.

United States · Modern method
· Vegetables
Spanish cabello de ángel: a preserve for a particular squash in its finished form.

Cabello de ángel (figleaf-squash freezer preserve)

Fine strands of Cucurbita ficifolia cooked in an equal weight of sugar, then portioned for refrigerator or freezer storage. Ordinary orange pumpkin does not give the same fibres.

Spain · Modern method
· Vegetables
Doce de abóbora with walnuts on a warm ivory background.

Doce de abóbora with walnuts

Portuguese pumpkin jam cooked with cinnamon and optional walnuts. A sweet spread to refrigerate or freeze, rather than a home-canned preserve.

Portugal · Modern method
· Vegetables
Calabaza en tacha on a warm ivory background.

Calabaza en tacha

Rind-on pumpkin simmered with piloncillo, orange and cinnamon until glazed. This Mexican sweet keeps refrigerated for up to one week.

Mexico · Modern method
· Vegetables
Spiced pumpkin leather on a warm ivory background.

Spiced pumpkin leather

Cooked pumpkin blended with honey, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, spread thinly and dried into a rollable sheet.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Spiced pumpkin butter on a warm ivory background.

Spiced pumpkin butter

A smooth pumpkin spread cooked with apple juice, lemon and warm spices. Keep it refrigerated for up to seven days, or freeze for longer storage.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Pressure-canned pumpkin cubes on a warm ivory background.
Elevated risk

Pressure-canned pumpkin cubes

Plain pumpkin cubes hot-packed in water and pressure-canned for later cooking. The pieces stay intact during canning; mash them only after opening.

United States · Modern method
· Vegetables
Frozen pumpkin purée on a warm ivory background.

Frozen pumpkin purée

Cooked pumpkin mashed, cooled and frozen in portions: a plain base for pies, soups and baking without canning a dense purée.

Modern method
· Vegetables
A bowl of smooth, glossy chestnut-brown sweet mushroom jam with a fine pulped texture and a small spoon.
High risk

Mushroom Jam (Sweet Concentrated Mushroom Preserve)

An experimental sweet mushroom preserve developed in Indian food-processing research, made by cooking mushroom pulp with sugar, added pectin and citric acid until concentrated into a thick, spreadable jam.

Solan · Modern method
· Vegetables
Finished green lye-cured olives in a plain ceramic bowl, with a jar of the same brined olives behind it; original editorial reconstruction.
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Green olives lye-treated

Green olives debittered in a sodium hydroxide solution, then rinsed repeatedly and held in brine, by the University of California's published home-pickling method.

Mediterranean · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A clear glass jar of cooked milk-cap mushrooms layered under brine, illustrating Finnish-style salted mushrooms.
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Salted Mushrooms

Salted mushrooms are a traditional wild-mushroom preserve, especially of Finnish and Russian milk caps, made by layering boiled mushrooms with coarse salt or keeping them under brine, and kept cold.

Russia · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Tender green asparagus pieces coated in glossy red cho-gochujang dressing and sesame seeds in a shallow ceramic banchan bowl.

Asparagus with cho-gochujang

A Korean banchan of blanched asparagus dressed with a sweet-sour cho-gochujang sauce; Hyosun's version cools the spears in ice water before tossing.

Korea · Modern method
· Vegetables