SC - Period pumpkin recipes

[david friedman]

At 1:29 PM -0800 3/1/00, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

>Now zucchinis as we know them appear to be not-period, but are they 
>related to Old World plants or are they derived from New World stock?


New World. I think c. pepo.

>Those long-necked pale-green Italian gourds in Tacuinum Sanitatis 
>are really big. If i can find something like them at a local 
>market...

Lageneria Sicereia (sp?) seems a likely guess for the old world 
gourds. Still used in Chinese cooking, so you may well find them in a 
Chinese grocery store. The problem is figuring out, among all the 
gourd/melon/squash things in a big Chinese grocery store, which ones 
are right.

It helps to know that c. pepo is yellow flowered and l. sicereia is 
white flowered, so if there is someone at the store who speaks 
english, and happens to know what the plants look like ...  .

David/Cariadoc
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