SC - Period Pumpkin Recipes?

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Robert May does, if memory serves, as does la Varenne (1652)

neither are particularily medieval, though...

- --Anne-Marie

At 02:10 PM 2/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
>First, thanks for help on and off list.
>
>Now, I've gone through what books i have and i have found recipes for
>zucche
>gowrdes
>courges
>and
>congordes
>but so far nothing with a name even vaguely like pumpkin.
>
>Out of 6 recipes, the authors suggest using "winter squash or 
>pumpkin" in 5 of them. One suggests zucchini. In three books the 
>authors admit that winter squash and pumpkin were not available in 
>Medieval Europe, yet recommend them none the less in their redactions.
>
>Even if it isn't New World pumpkin, are there any European cookbooks 
>that actually refer to pumpkin or pompon or pompion?
>
>Books i have with original historic recipes are:
>_The Original Mediterranean Cuisine: Medieval recipes for today_ by 
>Barbara Santich.
>_Pleyn Delit, Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks_ by Constance B. 
>Hieatt, Brenda Hosington, and Sharon Butler
>_Early French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern 
>Adaptations_ by D. Eleanor Scully & Terence Scully
>_The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy_ by Odile Rédon, 
>Françoise Sabban, & Silvano Serventi
>_Curye on Inglysch_ by Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler (same 
>recipe in Pleyn Delit)
>
>Additionally, Curye on Inglysch mentions _Baghdad Cookery Book_, 
>which i found in the bibliography of _Pleyn Delit_, as translated by 
>Arberry, as having three recipes for gourds. I have a photocopy of 
>Waines' book, _In a Caliph's Kitchen_ lurking somewhere, perhaps it 
>has one of these (it does include the original recipes in translation 
>in small type under the color photo of each cooked dish)...
>
>Still searching for the mention of pumpkin or something like it in a recipe,
>I remain,
>Anahita al-shazhiyya
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