On 26 Apr, 23:29, Dave Hill wrote:
On 26 Apr, 21:25, Martin wrote:



On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:34:55 +0100, "Mike Lyle"

wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:39:23 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
wrote:

"Dave Hill" wrote in message
This year whilst i was in Malta I bought a Veg in the marrow family
which a friend thought was called the 100 year fruit? but I wont
swear
to this as the stall I bought it of knew no english name for it.
Pics athttp://www.twango.com/channel/Taffy4u2.Unknown

I agree with Mike Lyle. It's a choko (or chayote as the Merkins call
them).
If he is as old as I am, he and I would both no doubt have ghastly
similar
mamories of it from childhood. Chokoes steamed and served as a veg,
chokoes
stewed with apples and served as a dessert etc ad nauseum............

They grow like a weed in a warm climate and are capable of enveloping
the
outhouse, the tool shed, the chook house, parked cars and strangling
unwary
gardeners in their beds (and that is only one plant).

Recipe here
http://www.smart.com.mt/recipes/stuffedmarrows.shtml

You can't really do that with a choko: they're too small and irregular.
And anyway, why should anybody in their right mind want to? Even
pumpkin's better. . . well, almost: at least a choko tastes of nothing.

I guess the locals know how to cook a Maltese marrow.
--

Martin

Some Maltese people cook soup (brodu) and cantinarja is one of the
ingredients they put in they peel the cantinarja and cut it in small
pieces.
but In 15 years of going to Malta I have only come across it about 6
times, whilst every Veg stall sells pumpkin, they cut as much as you
want of it from pumpkins that are about 15 to 18 across.
David Hill
Abacus Nurseries

This is probably the most informative site regarding the chokos
http://www.greengold.com.au/wallsend/chokos.htm

David Hill
Abacus Nurseries