SC - Period Recipes

[david friedman]

At 12:56 AM -0400 6/7/97, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>Dottie Elliott wrote:

Green peas are the fresh, new variety of this pea, as
>opposed to the dried form.

I'm not certain, but my memory of McGee's discussion was that our green pea
was a variant of the old world pea which was harvested immature. I don't
think it was clear when its use started. I believe the modern term for the
non-green version is "field pea," but I could easily be wrong.

David/Cariadoc
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