Sugar Loaf (or Delicata) Baked with Sweet Spices and Cream

Name: Sugar Loaf (or Delicata) Baked with Sweet Spices and Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon ground anise, fennel, or cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon ground hot pepper or white pepper; ¼ teaspoon ground anise, fennel, or cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon ground anise, fennel, or cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon ground hot pepper or white pepper; 6 tablespoons heavy cream; 2 Sugar Loaf or Delicata squash (about 1¼ pounds each); 2 Sugar Loaf or Delicata squash (about 1¼ pounds each); ¼ teaspoon ground mace or grated nutmeg; ¼ teaspoon ground mace or grated nutmeg; ½ teaspoon kosher salt; ½ teaspoon sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini

By Elizabeth Schneider

Published 2001

About

An easy and rewarding dish that looks cute too. The very small dose of cream flavors, moistens, and lightly glazes the squash while adding only minimal fat.

Ingredients

2 Sugar Loaf or Delicata squash (about 1¼ pounds each)
½ teaspoon kosher salt

Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F. Rinse squash. Cut off each stem (or knock it off with a knife handle). Hold each squash upright on this flatter end and carefully slice down with a heavy knife into 2 long halves. With melon ball cutter, remove seeds and fibers. Shave a lo