SC - pumpkins

[david friedman]

The word "pumpkin" predates the introduction of the New World vegetable
that now goes by that name. My guess is that it referred to some other
edible gourd, probably Lageneria Sicereia (sp?), the white flowered gourd,
which is our (my and Betty's) best guess at what the early cookbooks mean
by terms such as "gourd" and "pumpkin."

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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