[Sca-cooks] period recipe using fresh fava beans?

[Stefan li Rous]

On 6/26/05, Barbara Benson <voxeight at gmail.com> wrote:
 > The other difficulty would be that they are only very rarely
 > available. But while they were fresh - I would think they would have
 > eaten them. Has anyone ever played with them? I was wondering if I

I couldn't find any entry with "fresh chickpeas" but I did find this 
entry in the substitutions-msg file in the Florilegium, when I searched 
on "fresh fava beans":

> Libro de arte coquinaria - ' Fresh Fava beans with meat broth' :  
> "...And you
> can do the same with peas or any other fresh vegetable, but note that 
> they
> should not be skinned with hot water like fava beans..."  (question:  
> In
> humoral theory, were all vegetables considered to have the same 
> properties,
> as this recipe makes no mention of it, and seems to treat all 
> vegetables
> generically?)

So, someone who has access to "Libro de Arte coquinaria" might want to 
look up the complete recipe.

Stefan
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