SC - Pumpkins in Period?
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Wed Sep 20 09:47:05 PDT 2000
At 8:56 AM -0400 9/20/00, Jenne Heise wrote:
> > 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...
I don't think we know that. L. sicereia is a plausible candidate for
the old world gourd recipes, but that doesn't imply that there were
not any others.
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.
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David Friedman
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