SC - FW: New Medieval cookbook

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Greetings unto Chimene and the members of this list,

I recieved this message on Tuesday and I sending it you in the hopes that
we can help this individual. Matt apparently found this message in my
beans-msg file. I imagine he is looking for any recipes, not just period
ones. Please send him any messages directly and/or to this list as he does
not subscribe to this list.

If this Jacob's cattle bean is a period bean, then perhaps those near
Medord, OR now have an available source.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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Dear Mr Harris, 
Found the below article in your website an need help locating a receipe for
cooking/seasoning Jacobs cattle beans.

 I'm in a very rural area outside Medford OR. and grow the beans and my wife
and I need help in finding a receipe to cook them. Appreciate any advise you
can give pointing to sources of receipes
Tnx for your help   matepstein at aol.com

(Matt Epstein, I think from the email address - Stefan)

Subject Re: SC - green beans
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 97 18:03:24 MST
From: DUNHAM Patricia R <Patricia.R.DUNHAM at ci.eugene.or.us> To: "Mark.S
Harris" <rsve60 at msgphx1>, sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG 

Having grown pole beans last summer and favas and Jacob's cattle beans (one of
the kinds you dry and make soup from) this summer... 

The seeds you plant pole beans from look about a quarter the size, but the
same general bean-shape as a fava... (about 1.5 times the size of a seed pea--
we also had regular peas and sugar pods, both years). I don't think pole-bean
seeds are sold for anything besides growing more pole beans, to eat the flesh
of, but that's a very casual opinion. The seeds you would see in frozen or
canned green beans would be of an immature size. I think the kinds of beans
you use for baked beans and chili and so forth are not mature green-bean
seeds, but types that are grown specifically for the dried seeds, like the
Jacob's cattle (an old variety, name comes from they're brown and white
speckled). (Yeah, I got inspired by John Thorne's latest book; I MAY have
enough for one batch of baked beans 8-).) 

<snip for this SCA-Cooks message>

So there's a lot of visual similarity between favas and green beans when young
and growing, and by the time you get the big harvest difference, you've
already eaten enough green beans to know a good thing! Especially cause there
is edible produce there from an early stage, on the pole/green beans, which
isn't available with the favas or drying-beans (well, I didn't try either of
those when they were little, 'cause I was pre-programmed to go for the storage
end-product...) 

Chimene
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