[Sca-cooks] Beans and Flour

[Johnna Holloway]

There's a footnote [567] on page 246 of
Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic ...

 By Paulina Lewicka
which states "cow peas (lubiya)" in a list of plants being grown as food crops in the Nile delta.
The sources are given as Al-Umari, Masalik 83 and Ibn Iyas Bada'i I/1, 44.

Johnnae

On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Jim and Andi Houston wrote:

> I will bet money that lubya are cow peas of some sort, simply because cow
> peas are originally from India and they're called lobia. And there are
> absolutely white cow peas, along with cow peas of many colors. I'm growing
> some jet black cow peas right now, we had them for dinner last night.
> 
> Madhavi