SC - Period Recipes

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Stephen Bloch wrote:
> 
> > >> Fried Beans and Onions. Saute onions in oil, add kidney
> > beans, ginger, cinnamon and another sweet spice. Heat. The onions, beans
> > and sweet spices make a tastey mix and the dish is good hot or cold.
> >
> > So not only are fruit rollups period, so are barbecue beans w/onions?  Neat.
> 
> Well, _that_ recipe is probably not "period" (if we mean "medieval"),
> because as far as I know kidney beans were not available in Europe until
> the 16th or 17th century.  However, there are somewhat similar recipes
> from medieval Arabic sources, using garbanzo or fava beans.
> 
>                                         mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib

Yup. I believe McKendry is doing an attempt at "makke", which would have
been fava beans. This is yet another case of substituting for an
ingredient that could have been harder to find when the book was
written. Split favas or their period English equivalent "canebynes",
having been dehusked,  would have produced a product pretty close to
McKendry's (unless, of course, we're talking about red kidney beans).

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