Bohemian peas- was: [Sca-cooks] Cardamom?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Essentially, cooking things down and mushing them. Starting with fresh peas
> would be a fairly long and time consuming process- by starting with the splt
> peas, the very act of cooking them and stirring them provides you with your
> mush- from there, all you need to do is spice them, chill them, dish them,
> sugar them, and serve them forth.

Is there that much difference between dried whole peas and dried split
peas? I'm not familiar with the process of creating split peas...

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