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Baked Squash

Baked squash is a simple oven‑cooked squash served in its shell.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Baked Squash

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Cut the squash into convenient sizes and scrape out the seeds and soft part.

  3. Place the squash in a baking dish with a little water.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for about 1 hour until tender.

  2. Serve 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
Provides the main body of the dish, becoming soft and tender as it bakes.

“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.

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