[Sca-cooks] Plantains: Period for Old World?
Judith Epstein
judith at ipstenu.org
Tue Sep 1 11:55:41 PDT 2009
On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:52 PM, otsisto wrote:
> Plantain are similar to bananas how would they have been exchanged
> with
> potatoes?
>
> Wouldn't people go by taste then by starch? Does plantain taste like a
> potato? I have understood the in "Germany" that the potatoe replaced
> the
> turnip in many dishes.
>
> De
That's the thing, plantains don't really have the sweetness that one
associates with the more widely known Cavendish banana (what most US
and Canadian folks tend to think of as the 'normal' banana). They've
got a very faint banana taste, and yes, they do taste and feel a lot
like potatoes.
Judith
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