SC - Sweet Spinach Tart

[Olwen the Odd]

> In any case, we don't know, or at least I don't, whether the early 
> variants of "pumpkin" referred to a gourd. It might have been 
> something else whose size and shape was sufficiently similar to what 
> we call a pumpkin for the name to have been transferred, such as some 
> kind of melon.

I think it is a mix. The one Strabo talks about isn't a melon, as it dries
with a hard rind and could be used as a bushel basket. The References to
pompions at the wedding of Jadwiga and Jagiello, however, may well be a
mistranlations of the word for melon, as Knab mentions it and Dembinska
mentions melons...

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