Cymlings-Patty Pan Squash

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Taste the State: Signature Foods of South Carolina and Their Stories

By Kevin Mitchell and David S. Shields

Published 2021

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Method

With its scalloped edge, blunt knobbed perimeter, shallow domed top, and deeper domed bottom, the cymling looks like a jelly fish flipped on its bottom. The diameters of the fruit when edible vary from mini-cymlings three inches across up to a fulsome eight inches. They are three to four inches deep. If left to mature, they will expa