white peas...was Re: SC - Crown Tourney feast

[Christina Nevin]

	hey all from Anne-Marie
	Lucrezia tells us:
	- - white peas = chickpeas (oops)
	actually, I dont know that this is true. Chickpeas or ceci beans or
	garbanzos are indeed in the pea family, but my reading suggests that
white peas are peas. see, when you take whole green peas and dry them, the
outer husk turns white, and they look, well, white. 
	Interestingly, when you boil them, as in the period pea soup recipes
from Martha Washington etc, the skins come off (just like the recipe
describes), and you can skim them off (just like the recipe describes) and
you end up with green pea glop, just as if you had startted with modern
split peas.go figure! if any one has any evidence to the contrary, I'd love
to hear about it...
	- --AM, who is very jealous of Lucruztias neat event in Wales :)

Hmm, well the recipe I used was:

Pesoun of Almayne  FoC.72
Take white pesoun; wisshe hem. Seeth hem a grete while. Take hem vp and cole
hem thurgh a cloth; wisshe hem in colde water til the hulles go off. Cast
hem in a pot and couere hem that no breth go out, and boile hem right wel,
and cast therinne gode mylke of almaundes and a pertye of flour of rys with
powdour gynger, safroun, & salt.

I was going on the premise that as this was a Forme of Cury (ie English)
recipe, they were using un-shucked peas, not chickpeas. 
What do people think? Peas or chickpeas?

Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
Lucretzia

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