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Hubbard Squash is now considered more of a term describing a group, though the original one "True Hubbard" is still available. Besides the squashes that have Hubbard in their actual names, Boston Marrow, Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Redskin are also hubbard squashes.

The squashes in this group have hard, bumpy skin that ranges in colour from from greyish-blue to grey to orange to green (dark or light.)

Inside, they have sweet, orangish-yellow, somewhat grainy flesh.

As Hubbard-type Squashes are very large, they are often sold cut into smaller pieces.

Hubbard Squashes are a Winter Squash.

Cooking Tips
Good boiled and mashed or served in chunks, also good puréed and made into pumpkin pies -- the flesh cooks up firmer and sweeter than many actual pumpkins do.

Substitutes
Another squash

Storage
Uncut, store in cool place for up to 6 months. Once cut, refrigerate.

History
Hubbard Squash was first recorded in Marblehead, Massachusetts as arriving there in 1798, either from the West Indies or South America. It was named by nurseryman James John Howard Gregory (1827-1910) of Marblehead after an Elizabeth Hubbard of Massachusetts, who had introduced him to the squash.

Gregory received an award in 1860 for the squash from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. It was the Hubbard Squash that launched his career as a nurseryman.

Literature & Lore
"Of the origin of the Hubbard squash we have no certain knowledge. The facts relative to its cultivation in Marblehead are simply these. Upwards of twenty years ago, a single specimen was brought into town, the seed from which was planted in the garden of a lady, now deceased; specimen from this yield was given to Captain Knott Martin, of this town, who raised it for family use for a few years when it was brought to our notice in the year 1842, or '43. We were first informed of its good qualities by Mrs Elizabeth Hubbard, a very worthy lady, through whom we obtained seed from Captain Martin. As the squash, up to this time, had no specific name to designate it from other varieties, my father termed it 'Hubbard Squash.'"

-- James J.H.Gregory in The Magazine of Horticulture, 23 December 1857.

See Also:

James John Howard Gregory, Pumpkin Purée

Other entries for:

Hubbard Squash
Baby Green Hubbard Squash, Blue Hubbard Squash, Golden Hubbard Squash, Green Hubbard Squash, Hubba Hubba Squash, Warted Hubbard Squash

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Winter Squash
Acorn Squash, Baby Blue Hubbard Squash, Banana Squash, Berrettina Piacentina Squash, Black Futsu Squash, Blue Ballet Squash, Blue Banana Squash, Blue Lakota Squash, Boston Marrow Special Squash, Boston Marrow Squash, Buttercup Squash, Butternut Squash, Carnival Squash, Cornell Bush Delicata Squash, Crown Prince Squash, Cushaw Green Striped Squash, Delicata Squash, Galeux d'Eysines Squash, Gem Squash, Golden Delicious Squash, Golden Nugget Squash, Jarradale Squash, Lakota Squash, Mammoth Squash, Mountaineer Squash, Muscat de Provence Squash, Orange Banana Squash, Piena di Napoli Squash, Pink Banana Squash, Pink Mammoth Jumbo Banana Squash, Queensland Blue Squash, Red Warty Thing Squash, Rugosa Butternut Squash, Rumbo Squash, Spaghetti Squash, Sucrine du Berry Squash, Swan White Acorn Squash, Sweet Dumpling Squash, Sweet Keeper Squash, Sweet Kikuza Squash, Sweet Meat Squash, Table King Bush Acorn Squash, Tennessee Sweet Potato Squash, Tonda Padana Squash, Turban Squash, Winter Luxury Pie Squash, Young's Beauty Squash, Zapalo Plomo Squash

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Squash
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