[Sca-cooks] Squash in Scappi's Opera

David Walddon david at vastrepast.com
Fri Sep 18 11:22:43 PDT 2009


Raphella, 
I have the original Italian here at the house so the below can be cross
referenced. Check it out next time you are here.
Eduardo


On 9/18/09 10:19 AM, "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:

>> On one of the local culinary lists I'm on a discussion came up about
>> squash, whether they were found and used in pre-1700 Europe, and if
>> so, what breeds. I've been going through not only all of the great
>> recipes in Scappi, but the extremely useful indexes as well.
>> 
>> In the index listing all ingredients by type squash are listed under
>> vegetables and herbs above ground: Squash (common, hairy, Genoese,
>> Savona, Turkish). But I don't know what any currently available
>> equivalents might be, any thoughts on what appropriate substitutions
>> might be?
> 
> Is there some way of telling whether the word translated as "squash"
> refers to New World vegetables (probably C. Pepo) or to the old world
> edible gourds? I don't know whether or not the former were in common
> use that early.





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