Unripe squashes

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Trevor Holloway
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I have picked a few unripe butternut squashes but do not know what to use them for, does anyone have any suggestions ?
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Soup ingredient, is about all they'll be good for, make sure there are some flavoursome things in there as well. :D
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Try leaving them to ripen in a warm airy place. We were given an unripe (ie green) butternut last autumn and by this spring it was ripe and edible. We have had a good crop of ripe butternut this season due to the good weather, so cannot try to repeat the experience. Though we hope that they will keep well into next spring.
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I picked a few green ones some weeks ago and they have ripened in my greenhouse.
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How would be able to tell when my butternut squash is ripe and ready to cook?
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By its colour, look at one in the supermarket, the nearer to that then the better. :D
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