[Sca-cooks] Re:green beans was Food Origins - antelope

[Daniel Myers]

Quoted from johnna holloway - 5/25/02, 4:40 PM -0400:
>They are in Markham as bean cods in the simple
>sallet recipe. In Robert May, they can be found as
>"french beans... take away... the strings..."
>on page 429. They are identified in the glossary of
>the Prospect Books fcsimile as the New World version
>of the bean.
>
>Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
>" you wrote:> >
>> >Just a quickie....> >
>> >  We have a recipe for Green Beans with Almonds.
>> >Can anyone remember which source this recipe comes from?

The words "bean cods" set off an echo in my head and I had to search.
There is a reference to "benecodde" in "Two Fifteenth Century Cookery
Books" (see below).  Could this term mean something like "pea pod" - since
I was under the impression that green beans were a new world food.


.x. Rapeye. Take Dow, & make ther-of a brode thin cake; then take Fygys &
Roysonys smal y-grounde, & fyrst y-sode, An a pece of Milwelle or lenge
y-braid with-al; & take pouder of Pepir, Galyngale, Clowe, & mence
to-gedere, & ley thin comede on the cake in the maner of a benecodde,
y-rollyd with thin hond; than ouer-caste thy cake ouer thi comade, as it
wol by-clippe hit; & with a sawcere brerde go round as the comade lyith, &
kutte hem, & so he is kut & close with-al, & bake or frye it, & thanne
serue it forth.



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