Miniature Crown Prince squashes
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Primrose
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We've just visited a favourite farm shop while on holiday in Sussex where we've discovered they are growing for the first time a minature Crown Prince variety which is about half the size of the normal plant. We were able to buy one and look forward to trying it when we get home Has anybody come across the seed for this miniature variety yet?
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Haven't seen them yet, Primrose, but sounds like a very good idea. A regular sized cp feeds a lot of people, makes a lot of soup, endless risottos....lovely, but it's nice for a change. Mind you, it freezes well.
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We've now had an opportunity to try cooking this new variety. When raw, the flesh was very dry inside - drier than the large Crown Princes normally are. On the first occasion we boiled it in chunks with other vegetables for about 8 minutes (with the skin on) and the flesh started crumbling and dissolving, ending up rather like the yolk on a hard boiled egg so the texture was rather disappointing.
Yesterday we tried roasting it in chunks. Again the flesh crumbled and disintgrated, rather than staying whole like the larger variety. Having said that, the flavour was very sweet and nutty - rather like the Sweet Dumpling and its properties would be useful for thickening soups and caseroles. However, if you want to serve it as a vegetable in its own right, the texsture of larger variety is far more accommodating. Perhaps the weather may have influenced the growing texture of the smaller variety so maybe it's not fair to judge one fruit on one occasion.
Yesterday we tried roasting it in chunks. Again the flesh crumbled and disintgrated, rather than staying whole like the larger variety. Having said that, the flavour was very sweet and nutty - rather like the Sweet Dumpling and its properties would be useful for thickening soups and caseroles. However, if you want to serve it as a vegetable in its own right, the texsture of larger variety is far more accommodating. Perhaps the weather may have influenced the growing texture of the smaller variety so maybe it's not fair to judge one fruit on one occasion.