[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[Sam Wallace]

Jim,

"Unless you want to leverage early traces in Arab Spain, they are indeed
period, but rather late."

You might try a web search for "Tacuinum sanitatis Melones dulces". The
image hits I got for that look a lot like watermelon. For example:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melones_dulces_%28Wiener_Tacuinum%29.jpg
circa 1390

For late period sources, I looked through a variety of Dutch Humanist
painters work (because they are wonderful) and found a number of melons,
though only a few that were clearly watermelon.

As for watermelon rind pickles, they are quite nice. I have seen a couple
of styles. I prefer them without any of the meat attached, but my dad likes
to leave just a sliver of it on one corner for color.

Guillaume