"The pulpe of the Pompion is never eaten raw, but boiled... The fruit boiled in milke and buttered, is not onely a good wholesome meate for mans bodie: but being so prepared, is also a most phisicall medicine for such as have an hot stomacke, and the inward parts inflamed. The flesh or pulpe of the same sliced and fried in a pan with butter, is also a good and wholesome meate: but baked with apples in an oven, it doth fill the bodie full of flatuous or windie belchings, and is foode utterly unwholesome for such as live idly; but unto robustious and rusticke people, nothing hurteth that filleth the belly."
John Gerard, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes
Try some baked pumpkin! A few windy belchings are sure to enliven your week.
Perhaps the Celtic version of this North American staple is the Turnip, hallowed out on Celtic New Year's Eve (31 Oct) and thus fashioned to hold a candle and therefore help illuminate the way through the abounding spirits. . .
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