Fried Pumpkin

Ingredients

• Half a green paw paw
• 1 dessertspoon of butter, lard or ground nut oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut pumpkin into small pieces and boil until soft.

2. 2

   Drain and fry in hot oil until slightly brown.

3. 3

   Sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoon pepper. The kurzunu, a dark green pumpkin covered with small raised white spots, is much the best, though the ordinary kind can also be used. 1. Peel the pumpkin, cutting a good half-inch of rind away, take out the seeds and cut into pieces about three inches square. 2. Throw the pieces into a pint of boiling water ; this stops the boiling, add the salt, bring again quickly to the boil and then let it simmer for about twenty minutes, by which time the pumpkin should be soft. 3. Drain off the water and mash the pumpkin through the sieve, add the milk, butter and pepper and pile it in a pie dish. Lightly scrape the surface with the prongs of a fork and brown it in the oven. This makes an excellent vegetable if the right pumpkin is used. Fried Pumpkin. (I). Cut the pumpkin into small pieces about half-au-:nch square and boil and simmer them as above in salted water until soft, then drain them. Melt a dessertspoon of butter, lard or ground nut oil in the small frying pan ; when quite hot and bubbling put in the squares and fry them slightly brown. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve very hot. VEGETABLES. 113 Boiled Paw Paw. (I). Half a green paw paw. 1 small teacup white sauce, 1 teaspoon salt

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