Organic Delicata Squash

Delicata Squash – Also known as Peanut squash, Bohemian squash, potato and sweet potato squash. A long oblong-shaped squash with a cream colored, green striped outer skin and a golden fine-textured inner flesh. Its size may range from 5 to 10 inches in length. Delicata, like its name is delicate, weighing less than a pound, with thin skin. This means you don’t have to wield a cleaver to hack through the shell. Delicata Squash tastes a bit like corn and sweet potatoes. The squash can be baked or steamed. The thin skin is also edible and as in all winter squashes you can roast and eat the seeds.

The delicata squash is called an heirloom variety, which means it was very available before we transported our food thousands of miles before it went to market.  It was originally introduced by the Peter Henderson Company of New York City in 1894, and was popular through the 1920s. Then it fell into obscurity for about seventy-five years, possibly because of its thinner, more tender skin, which isn’t suited to transportation over thousands of miles and storage over months.

They are in season from August to October and can be kept for 7 to 8 months.

Winter squash may be substituted for each other in your favorite squash recipes.

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