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This summer I obtained some “Sharks Fin Melon Squash” seeds and they proved very productive. About 6 large oval squashes produced per seed, larger than a football, weighing a hefty 10-12lbs (4.5-5.5 kilograms) each, attractive mottled green skin. The name comes from the fact they are a squash but look like a large water melon and evidently make a soup similar to the much disputed “shark’s fin” soup of Chinese cuisine (Wikipedia suggests it’s the texture rather than the taste which distinguishes shark’s fin soup, I haven’t tried either). I ended up with so many I even used some as auxiliary pumpkins for Halloween.
Inside the squash its seeds are not grouped centrally (as usual in a melon for instance) but are in columns running throughout the very pithy white spongy flesh of the squash. I’m wondering two things:
a) will the seeds be fertile and come true to form? And
b) how would you make the soup? Extract the seeds and stew the stringy white gunge?
LOL, sounds delicious doesn’t it?
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Inside the squash its seeds are not grouped centrally (as usual in a melon for instance) but are in columns running throughout the very pithy white spongy flesh of the squash. I’m wondering two things:
a) will the seeds be fertile and come true to form? And
b) how would you make the soup? Extract the seeds and stew the stringy white gunge?
LOL, sounds delicious doesn’t it?
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