SC - period pumpkin recipes?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> Butternut squash doesn't make any sense to me :-) It's New World.
> 
> Anahita al-shazhiyya
> 
Reasonable.  Especially when one realizes that the modern butternut squash
is scientifically named after Duquesne, the 18th Century French botanist who
also cross-bred Chilean and Virginian strawberries.  That makes me wonder if
the butternut isn't a post-period hybrid.

Bear