SC - Pumpkins in Period?

[Susan Browning]

Does anybody know of any recipes for pumkin (old world) in period?

Eleanor

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[mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of david friedman
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:51 PM
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Subject: Re: SC - Pumpkins in Period?


At 8:02 PM -0700 9/19/00, I wrote:

>The word "pompon," according to the OED, has nothing to do with
>pumpkins or gourds.

But glancing through Thomas Dawson (1597), I find him using "pompon"
for some kind of vegetable (an alternative to melon or cucumber), so
it looks as though Lady Eileen is probably right that one of its
meanings  is an alternate form of "pumpkin."

The recipe, incidentally, does not give me confidence in Dawson. He
is soaking seeds in sugar water mixed with rose water, then drying
the seeds and planting them, in order to produce such melons, the
like of which have never been seen. And if you mix musk into the
sugar water ...  .

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