SC - Pumpkins in Period?

[Olwen the Odd]

I recall seeing pumpkins in pictures of paintings included in the Art and 
Recipe cookbook that was recently discussed here.
olwen


>From: Jenne Heise <jenne at tulgey.browser.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Pumpkins in Period?
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:33:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > 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.
>
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
>disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>
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