boil beef and water with a little salt and pepper to taste.  When broth is boiled down and meat is thoroughly cooked, place pumpkin in a baking dish.  Put all vegetables inside and pour broth and meat chunks over the vegetables.  Place pumpkin top on and bake about 2 hours at 350'.  Serve hot.  Use a metal spoon so that you can scoop the inside of the pumpkin into the bowl of stew as you serve it.