Squash

Ingredients 

• Squash
• Stale bread crumbs
• milk or cream
• sugar
• salt
• pepper
• butter

Directions

1. Parboil a squash or cymling
2. Cut it in half (roundwise)
3. scrape out the inside part with a spoon and put that in a bowl
4. add to it some stale bread crumbs
5. add a little milk or cream
6. add a spoonful of sugar
7. add salt 
8. add pepper
9. add butter
10. beat all well together
11. then put for a few moments into a frying-pan on the fire
12. then put all back into the squash shell
13. sprinkle bread crumbs on top
14. put them in the oven to brown a bit

     Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days

                    Prepared by Betsy Flowers

                              Louisiana Anthology

June 4, 2018