Hubbard squash

The event centered on an elaborate dinner party at which guests devoured sweet Hubbard squash, a symbol of abundance and fertility, carefully prepared for consumption.

And if you just can’t resist filling up your wheelbarrow at the pumpkin patch, Morgan suggests mixing red Cinderella pumpkins with white pumpkins and blue Hubbard squash for a harvest-like aesthetic at home.

Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea.

At other times they had baked Hubbard squash for dinner.

For a meat-free main with major tableside appeal, it’s hard to top the blue Hubbard squash, a whopper of a winter variety that happens to be shaped a lot like a turkey and is widely available at farmers’ markets.