[Sca-cooks] Squash in Scappi's Opera
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Fri Sep 18 10:19:16 PDT 2009
>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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David/Cariadoc
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