SC - Period Pumpkin Recipes?

[Thomas Gloning]

<< but so far nothing with a name even vaguely like pumpkin. ... are
there any European cookbooks that actually refer to pumpkin or pompon or
pompion? >>

The OED (1933 vol. X 117a) quotation s.v. "sugared" might lead to a
recipe:

1600 Surflet Countrie Farme 252 To make cucumbers or pompions sugred,
you must steepe the seed in water that is well sweetned with sugar or
honie, .. and so sowe them.

The quotations s.v. "pumpkin" are beginning only 1647. The entry
"pompion" has quotations from 1545 onwards, e.g.

1587 Harrison ... An acre of ground .. whereon to set cabbages ..
pompons, or such like stuffe.

1573 Tusser ... Herbes and rootes to boile or to butter. .. Pompions in
May. (OED1 Vol. VII 1104b).

Alas, there are not recipes, but the latter quotation at least seems to
mention a kind of preparation (depends on what was left out in the
quotation).

The German "Rheinfränkisches Kochbuch" (c. 1445) has a recipe for
"Kúrbes musz", and there are several recipes for "zuche" in the 15th (or
14th?) century Anonimo Veneziano published by Faccioli and Frati... But
I assume these are not the species you are looking for.

The variety of species and names in this family is really impressing. Is
there an inventory of the different species and of the European
expressions for these species somewhere?

Best,
Thomas