[Sca-cooks] period recipe using fresh fava beans?
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Thu Jun 30 14:30:17 PDT 2005
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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