SC - Salmon at feasts
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Wed Oct 8 17:57:59 PDT 1997
>Aine of Wyvernwood 10/8/97 2:28 PM
>
>>> I know we discussed this fairly recently but, are beans period? I
>>> don't recall the actual decision but IIRC it seems like it was that
>>> beans, such as white beans, were not period. (Although I do believe
>>> cassoulet is like nectar of the gods!)
>>>
>>> Mercedes
>
>In the 2nd edition of Pleyn Delit, it says that fava, lentil and kidney
>beans (?) were the only beans available in the middle ages. I knew of
>fava and lentils but this is the first I have heard of kidney beans. I
>would like to know more about them.
>
>Clarissa
To quote Lorna Sass in To the Queen's Taste, "The kidney bean is a New
World vegetable native to South America. It gained popularity quickly
during the Renaissance, and was most often served boiled and buttered as
part of a sallet. Beans were primarily food for the poor, and in the
words of one Elizabethan playwright: "Hunger maketh hard beanes
sweet.""
I haven't chased this one back to her sources, since I only found it two
nights ago while looking over everything I have with Elizabethan
recipes.
Bear
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