SC - losenges fryes/potage of beans boiled
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 6 20:37:02 PST 2001
>Potage of Beans Boiled
>
>For to make a potage fene boiles, tak wite benes & se+ hem in water, & bray
>+e benys in a mortar al to noght; & lat +em se+e in almond mylk & do +erin
>wyn & hony. & se+ reysouns in wyn & do +erto & after dresse yt forth.
SNIP
>My notes and questions:
>
>Does this recipe really require fava beans? I find myself doubtful because
>the original calls for "wite benes" and, if fava beans are indeed broad
>beans, they are green not white.
Aha! The mysterious wite benes! We just had a discussion of this
sometime within the last 6 weeks - cuz that's how long i've been back
from Morocco.
I rather doubt white beans are favas. And unlike what someone wrote
somewhere on the web, i don't think it's dried green or yellow peas.
I discovered in my searches that black-eyed peas and a number of
their relatives - which includes a white critter - are Old World
(from India) and likely known in Europe at the time of your recipe.
So i think the white bean is this black-eyed pea relative i've seen
called a cream pea or lady cream pea. I know they're popular in the
Southern United States, which won't help you since you're in the Land
of Oz. I haven't hit my local Indian markets, but suspect they might
have them or something similar there - so that's where i suggest you
look - Indian and Pakistani markets. It looks like a black eyed pea
in shape, but is a creamy off-white in color.
>What sort of wine should I use - it is going to be cheap cask wine, but
>should it be white or red? My feeling is that it is white, but I could be
>wrong.
Given that the other ingredients are white or light in color, i'd
suggest white wine, but i don't really know what would be perfectly
historically accurate.
A question for listees: Did they have green grape raisins back then
or just red/purple grape raisins? Cuz if they had 'em, that might be
an interesting ingredient, to keep the dish all pale colored...
Anahita
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