[Sca-cooks] Butternut squash?
Robin Carroll-Mann
rcmann4 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 21 18:37:52 PDT 2007
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
>>Are butternut squash period? When I see recipes for squash tart, are we
>>talking about summer squash or winter squash?
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>Neither, actually, in most cases: the period 'squash' or 'gourd' is the
>white-flowered lagenaria gourd... (bottle gourds) from africa
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I have bought this variety of gourd from local Asian grocery stores.
The taste is rather like summer squash, though the texture is firmer. I
think summer squash would be a reasonable substitute (peel skin and
remove seeds).
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Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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