[Sca-cooks] A Bean is a bean

[Stefan li Rous]

Johnnae mentioned:
<<< If it's a 16th century recipe, it might be also be a New World Bean.
Baroness Helewyse wrote about the use of new world beans in Italian
cookery in this article
A time for change : new world foods in old world menus.  discussing
the spread and use of various new world foods (squash, beans, turkey,
corn) and the lack of spread of the tomato into 16th century Italy. http://www.medievalcookery.com/helewyse/ 
   >>>

It can also be found in the FOOD-BY-REGION section of the Florilegium  
as:
NW-Fds-Italy-art  (62K) 10/15/06   "A time for change: new world foods  
in old
                                     world menus", by Mistress  
Helewyse de
                                     Birkestad.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BY-REGION/NW-Fds-Italy-art.html

Some more on beans and peas:
beans-msg        (140K) 12/ 3/11  Medieval, old-world beans. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/beans-msg.html

fava-beans-msg    (52K) 12/ 3/11  Fava beans and recipes in period.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/fava-beans-msg.html

peas-msg          (88K)  1/10/03  Period peas. Pea broth. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/peas-msg.html

Stefan

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