[Sca-cooks] Translation issue

[James Prescott]

At 06:09 -0400 2003-04-08, Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> Also sprach James Prescott:
>>If you are referring to Indian cuisine, then 'gram' generally
>>refers only to the chick pea and very close relatives, such as
>>'channa' which is like a small chick pea with its skin removed,
>>and with the pea split.  'Gram' flour is made from 'channa'.
>>
>>
>>Nevertheless, for our greater confusion, 'gram' is occasionally
>>used to refer to some other legumes, such as moong beans and
>>horse gram.
>
> I understood gram dal to be made from mung beans...


Yes, it can be, but if you want to run the odds in an Indian
restaurant chosen randomly from anywhere in the world then bet
on chick pea (or one of its very close relatives).  You'll lose
only occasionally.


Thorvald