The history of pumpkin pie includes tales associated with European explorers, the Mayflower and abolitionists. The cultivation of pumpkins go way back to roughly 5,500 BC and was one of the first foods explorers of the New World brought back to England. Documentation of pumpkins in England began in 1536 at which time the gourd was known as “pumpions.” Now before you start picturing a pumpkin onion, that name actually came from the French word “pompon” due to its round shape.

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