[Sca-cooks] Bohemian Baba
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jan 19 05:51:42 PST 2008
White peas are Lathyrus sativus AKA white vetch, Indian pea, Indian vetch,
almorte (Sp.), alverjon (Sp.), cicerchia (It.), pisello bretonne (It.),
khesari (In.), batura (In.), gesette (Fr.), etc., etc. etc. They are one of
the legumes that was largely replaced by the New World beans after 1492.
Modernly, they are still used in Italy and a few of the Mediterranean
countries, but are more likely to be found in Africa and some parts of Asia.
White, as a culinary term in German, can be used to describe blanching, more
properly, weissmachen or weissseiden.
Bear
I'm working on this recipe for our event this weekend. Rumpolt has no less
than 17 recipes for strained peas. Another recipe describes a pea dish as
white, and it calls for whole peas, so I made a trip to the Indian grocery
to buy whole white dry peas.
After hours of soaking, cooking, and dehulling I have... split yellow
peas!! Instead of hulling the rest, I'm likely to make another grocery run
and get split peas.
Or should it after all, be black eyed peas?
Ranvaig
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