Culinary gleanings from John Gerard's Herball
Melons or Pompions - pages 918-921. " Pepo... Melons, or Pompions. The pulpe of the Pompion is neuer eaten raw, but boiled... The fruit boiled in milke and buttered, is not onely a good wholesome meat for mans body, but being so prepare, is also a most physicall medicine for such as haue an hot stomacke...
