Baked Squash

Ingredients

• Cut a winter squash in two down its length.
• sprinkle salt
• spread butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut a winter squash in two down its length.

2. 2

   Take out the seeds and filaments and set the halves in a dripping-pan.

3. 3

   Put water in the pan and cover the squash, and in a moderate oven bake from 1.5 to 2 hours.

4. 4

   A quarter of an hour before the squash is done, take from the oven, empty the water from the pan, and sprinkle salt and spread butter round the upper or pulp portion of the two halves.

5. 5

   Set back in the oven to brown, and serve, setting the halves on a platter and dipping the squash from its own shell.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The home cook book (1905) by Christine Frederick, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED SQUASH Cut a winter squash in two down its length. Take out the seeds and filaments and set the halves in a dripping-pan. Put water in the pan and cover the squash, and in a moderate oven bake from an hour and a half to two hours. A quarter of an hour before the squash is done take from the oven, empty the water from the pan, and sprinkle salt and spread butter

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