SC - Green Beans

[Terry Nutter]

Hi, Katerine here.  Ceridwen asks about fresh beans.  Yes, there is some
indication that beans were eaten fresh; but that doesn't make them modern
string beans.  Peas were also eaten both fresh and dried, and both young
and old.  There are a few extant recipes for fresh veggies, but there's
every reason to believe that far more were eaten than the recipe corpus
would suggest, and an indication in Taillevent as to the reason for that:
they were simply prepared, and everyone knew how.  Period culinary
collections were written, if not precisely for experts, at least for
competant cooks, not novices; they didn't include what any competant
cook would already know.

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry
   (who has long wished that there was a period equivalent to the modern
    cookbook for those who can barely boil water, so that we could see
    in detail all the stuff the collections take for granted!)

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