SC - Period Pumpkin Recipes?
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 29 14:10:04 PST 2000
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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