Straying Off Topic (was Re: SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2611)

[Catherine Deville]

> Anyone able to shed any light on this? My recollection of our 
> discussion is that while they were only discovered in the New World, 
> and thus primarily only available in the 16th century, no known 
> recipes for actual *pumpkin as we know it* exist in period.
> 

My understanding of it is that there were big round gourds called pompions
available in europe in period (they appear to have migrated from Africa?),
and that what we now know as pumpkins were named after those pompions.

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