[Sca-cooks] Cream sauces

[Finne Boonen]

how do you make the link from courge to squash, and specificaly to
butternut squash?
Courge resembles courgette, wich is the current day french for
zucchini. Afaik, european squash relatives are Cucurbitaceae
Lagenaria, a species whose fruits are only edible young.

Finne

On 1/14/06, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> I am assuming that Raviolis de Courge is what is first recorded in the 13th
> Century.
>
> While I am certain butternut squash ravioli is delightful, it is most
> definitely not a 13th Century French dish.  The butternut squash (Cucurbita
> moschata) is a New World vegetable.  The raviolis de courge of the 13th
> Century would have been made with some type of bottle gourd (Lagenaria
> siceraria).  Also, the modern butternut squash was hybridized in the 18th
> Century by Auguste Parmentier (IIRC).
>
> That being said, there is quite a bit of confusion about whether squash or
> gourds are being called for in the 16th and 17th Centuries, so the dish may
> have been made with squash before 1600.
>
> Bear
>
>
> > I am serving Butternut Squash ravioli for a feast on the 28th.
> >
> > The dish: Raviolis de Courge - Is a traditional french mountain-village
> > dish is squash ravioli with walnut sauce.
> > (Castrum de Guillermo.  Guillaumes was founded in the 10th century by
> > Guillaume II, Count of Provence.  Remains of Neolithic habitation were
> > discovered in a grotto in the Vallon de Cantet, 3 km southwest. There are
> > other various signs of Gallo-Roman and barbarian occupation. First written
> > record, 13th century.)
> >
> > Vitha
>
>
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