SC - losenges fryes/potage of beans boiled

[Stefan li Rous]

Allison said: 
> I've got a package of dried fava beans sitting in the freezer, right now.
>  They are white--ok, cream.  I bought them at an Arab market in the Strip
> District--restaurant markets--and they were labelled fava.  They appear
> to be a bean the size of a fingernail; they are split in half in the
> dried state.

Why do you keep the dried beans in the freezer? I thought that since
they were dried they would keep perfectly well that way without needing
to be frozen.

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