Any of y'all plant cushaw (a type of winter squash)? It was commonly planted years ago.

I'm 82. All my life my family planted cushaw. For anyone not familiar with cushaw, it's very easy to grow, very productive, and produces numerous usually very large cushaws. It keeps a long time if allowed to stay on the vine until full maturity when the skin is very hard. It runs a lot, probably more so than pumpkin or butter nut squash, and being so easy to grow and productive it's a great vegetable for a child to plant. Even the smaller ones are pretty large. A butter nut would be very tiny compared to a typical cushaw. The most common cushaw is green striped, although there also is a solid white type.

We usually cooked cushaw as either a casserole or we'd cut the raw round part (with seeds and soft part removed and thrown away) into good sized pieces placed on a baking sheet with the skin side down, add spices, butter, sugar or syrup, to the top of each piece and bake until done. The neck of the cushaw was used for a casserole or pies.

Here's a couple of links to cushaw recipes.

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