[Sca-cooks] Earth Apples?

[otsisto]

I believe that those are melons in the picture. Probably related to the
cantaloupe.
As for melopepon, I have seen it referred to as musk melon. Melo = melon and
pepon = apple. In Gerard,"...or melopepon: by reason that pepo hath the
smell of an apple, whereto the smell of this fruit is like; having withall
the smell as it were of Muske:which for that cause are also named Melones
Muschatellini, or Muske Melons."
So if Erdapfel = melopopon, then you are probably looking at musk melons and
not winter squash.

In Gerard, sowbread and birthwort are  referred to as Apples of the earth.

Lyse


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Check out Campi's the Fruit Seller.  There is a dark green pumpkin-like
squash with orange flesh that is probably related to acorn squash or might
be one of the "Japanese pumpkins."  A detailed examination of that part of
the painting shows a stem that appears to be deeply grooved, indicative of
a New World cucurbit.  The painting is about 1595, give or take a few years.

Bear