Name: Baked Squash
Ingredients: squash; coarse sea salt; soft mild cheese

Baked Squash

Ingredients

squash
coarse sea salt
soft mild cheese

Directions

Prepare

Cut the squash into pieces and remove the seeds and stringy portions.

Bake and serve

Place the squash in a dripping pan and bake until soft.
Five minutes before the squash is done, sprinkle with coarse sea salt and grated soft mild cheese.
Serve the squash in its shells.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Squash: Forms the main body of the dish, becoming soft and tender as it bakes.
Soft mild cheese: Melts over the hot squash, adding richness and a creamy coating.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.