[Sca-cooks] European squash/pumpkin/gourd?

[James Prescott]

All of the following might be for old world gourd, or new world squash, 
or both, or neither.

We have four probable new world squash recipes, such as "Otra manera de 
calabazas", in de Nola (1520 Spanish).  One possible in Livro de Cozinha 
(c.1500 Portuguese).  There is "Potaige de courge" in Livre Fort 
Excellent (1555 French).  Two, such as "Lagenaria gourd", in Rumpolt 
(1581 German); plus the "Erdtepffel" recipe which is much debated, and 
which I conclude is probably a recipe for squash.  There is "How to make 
succade" in Battus (1593 Dutch), and "To cook squash" in Koge Bog (1616 
Danish).

Italian has already been mentioned, with four recipes in Scappi (1570). 
  There is one distantly possible in the Transylvanian cookbook (c. 1600).

There are also a few recipes in earlier cookbooks which can only be for 
old world gourd due to the dates.


Thorvald


On 2018-10-17, 11:03, Johnna Holloway wrote:
> Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash, new world gourds) are New World but they were brought over to Europe and incorporated into
> European cookery in the 16th century. The supposition is that they replaced the older seen as inferior old world gourds and marrows, and in some cases even took over the name of the older gourd.
>
> For instance the squash blossoms even turn up in paintings by the 1580s.
> Early evidence for the culinary use of squash flowers in Italy
>
> snipped
>
> Johnnae
>
>> On Oct 17, 2018, at 11:59 AM, Julia Szent-Gyorgyi<jpmiaou at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> A friend wants me to make a butternut squash and sweet potato soup for
>> a vigil this weekend. While a nice warm, creamy soup like this will
>> suit the weather forecast for the weekend perfectly, it bugs me that
>> as far as I know, neither butternut squash nor sweet potato were known
>> to pre-17th century Europeans. However, there is a fairly similar
>> recipe to the modern one in one of the late 16th-early 17th century
>> Hungarian recipe collections:
>> snipped
>
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