[Sca-cooks] Nettles (was viking cook book), rutabegas, mangetout

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Linda M. Kalb wrote:

> The other unfamiliar vegetable name I couldn't quite remember was
> mangetout.  Does anyone know what that is and what it looks like?

A mangetout (essentially, French for "eat it all", i.e. the whole
thing), is a small, tender pea pod like a sugar snap pea or a snow pea
pod. As the name implies, you eat the whole thing.


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