[Sca-cooks] Winter Squash

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I'm reading through Redon et al. The Medieval Kitchen. In several recipes,
> recipe 25 in particular, they use pumpkin as the squash of choice, where the
> translation (and presumably the original, but I can't read French or
> Italian) states squash. I had thought that pumpkin was a New World food.
> What squashes were available in France and Italy, especially in the winter?
>

White-flowered gourd, Lagenaria species.

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