SC - Period potato recipe

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Greetings all,

This is from Rowan who is unfortunately unsubscribed at the moment.  She is
growing langanaria sicaria (sic).  Mel.

> Adamantius wrote:
> >> << Most obvious thing that comes to mind is the hairy/fuzzy melon,
> a.k.a.
> >>  white-flowered gourd, a.k.a. long squash, which is apparently the
> >>  medieval European cucurbit gourd.
> 
> Ras said:
> >> In this we must disagree. Medieval illuminations which show pictures of
> 
> >> 'guords' most often illustrate them as long and skinny or bottle shaped
> or
> >> cucumber shaped. The Italian ediblre gourd, the luffa gourd and the
> bottle
> ...
> >> On what evidence do your base your belief that fuzzy gourds from the
> >> Occident 
> >> would have been  used? Cariadoc also mentions fuzzy. I suspect that the
> 
> >> relative ease of finding that type in US markets is the major criteria
> for
> 
> Well, I've just grown one from seed (thanks Drake) and you are both right!
> The vine had white flowers, about half the size of zucchhini flowers, but
> otherwise grew rather like a pumpkin - it was a climber. The resulting
> gourd
> is long and skinny, rather like a lebanese cucumber. I picked the sole
> result when it was 18" long. It has a bright mid green shiny skin, covered
> in little hairs - it is definitely fuzzy, but in a delicate way. It's
> sitting on my bench at home right now, waiting for me to decide how I'll
> cook it...
> 
> I will try to take a photo and post it, if it works out...
> 
> regards to the list
> Rowan
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