[Sca-cooks] A Question of Dried Beans

Robin Carroll-Mann rcarrollmann at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 19:58:00 PST 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Mairi Ceilidh <jjterlouw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Can someone point me toward period sources that discuss or describe
> soaking dried beans or peas prior to cooking?

Here's one.

>From the Menagier de Paris:
"OLD BEANS which are to be cooked with their pods must be soaked and
put on the fire in a pot the evening before and all night; then throw
out that water, and put to cook in another water..."
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html


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