SC - And Speaking of Kidney

[D. Clay-Disparti]

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
> 
> Actually, Ras, I can't think of any source that I know that has peas and
> pods eaten.  They may be in some of my books and I haven't seen them, or
> noticed them.  With the long habit of eating the dried, shelled peas I
> would have expected to read that people made a point of saying "...and
> they ate the pea pods, too!"  Pontormo only comments on the peas, not the
> peapods.  Doesn't prove anything, since he didn't paint himself eating
> them.

I've been meaning to throw a word or two into this one for a while,
FWIW. I think in cases where dried peas are pretty clearly intended
(probably the case in recipes calling simply for "peas"), the peas are
shelled because they'd be likely to get moldy before drying
sufficiently. Bearing in mind, of course, that in medieval Europe there
was an entire technology developed (and evidently fairly widely used) to
keep beans from molding in storage from insufficient drying [see
references to canebynes, frizzled beans, etc.], so evidently this was a
reasonable concern.

Conversely, the recipes calling for new or green peas specify, well, new
or green peas, pease, or peysoun, but then there are some, I believe,
which refer to peasecods. I doubt the shells from peas are what they're
talking about (although I suppose it's possible). 

Anyway, I believe that in _most_ instances if a recipe called for peas
in the shell the reference would be pretty specific.
 
Adamantius
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