SC - RE: Odd and Interesting foods

[Nicholas Sasso]

> At 11:16 PM -0700 9/19/00, Susan Browning wrote:
> >Does anybody know of any recipes for pumkin (old world) in period?
> There are several recipes in the Miscellany that use gourds, and are 
> from before Columbus. I don't remember any of them using gourds 
> called "pumpkins" or any variant.

True. But as far as can be determined, I believe this list came to
conclusion that all gourds in period were varietals of the same plant,
only in different shapes and sizes...

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