SC - Spanish food ref. in the Florilegium

[Stefan li Rous]

Phillipa asked:
> I did not know, until after I made the meal, My Lord, and all I had was canned
> pumpkin anyway...BUT.....I wanted to try the soup again using a different
> squash so thank you for pointing me in the right direction!  But where do you
> get these gourds?  I've never heard of them.  Do they go by another name?
 
> > You probably already know it, but just in case you don't...  .  Both
> >  pumpkin and winter squash are new world vegetables. The originals of these
> >  recipes presumably refer to an old world edible gourd, probably Lageneria
> >  Sicereia (sp?), the white flowered gourd.

There is a fair amount of info on pumpkins and gourds in this file in the
FOOD section of my Florilegium. Unfortunately, while there are a number
of referances quoted, none of the messages gives much info on where to
find these gourds. Ras I know, has grown some himself, but that is not a
viable possibility for many people. The file does give some of the modern
common names, so perhaps that would give you something to use in looking
for them. The file is:
vegetables-msg   (164K)  3/ 1/99    Period vegetables. Recipes.

There is enough info in this file on gourds that I will probably move
it to a new file, gourds-msg in the near future.
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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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