"jils" wrote in message
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hey claude
how are you searching in google? i found lots of gramma pie recipes,
australian, and it's mostly described as an aussie version of pumpkin pie.
also found this definition in the Australian National Dictionary:

Thanks Jils. What I meant was I didn't find much on Google that told me
what a gramma is. Certainly found a few recipes but nothing that told me
exactly what type of pumpkin it is esp if it is a butternut or not. From
the replies I've received and talking to my family it now seems clear that
it is not a butternut but a particular variety of pumpkin that is sweet and
usually (or else my mum only bought the curved ones) horse-shoe shaped. My
mum's recipe was to boil the gramma in well-sweetened water with a dash of
lemon and then mash and put in the pie shell. Only problem I've got now is
where do I buy a gramma in Melbourne???