Cushaw, the striped crooked neck pumpkin, is commonplace along the highways of Louisiana. Although this pumpkin is normally peeled, boiled and cooked casserole-style with brown sugar for the holiday ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Many of the old Creole cooks referred to the meat of the cushaw, a green and white, striped crookneck pumpkin, simmered in sugar and spices, as Juirdmon. This mixture can ...

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To cook the cushaw: Trim stem and blossom end of the squash, and cut into large chunks. Scrape out the seeds and discard (or keep for later toasting). Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large roasting pan ...

When Beckham Sharpe and his family switched from raising tobacco to growing produce on their Scott County farm more than a decade ago, they did a brisk business each fall in pumpkins and giant ...

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