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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Waxing on about beans
  • Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:37:45 -0400


I think Northern nomenclature makes much more sense. I knew the 'peas'
were really beans, but they are called field peas nevertheless. Lynn,
if you saw a bowl of them on a table at Sunday dinner, what you call
them?? What kind of beans?

I've never eaten beans that way, except fresh lima beans...they are the only beans I've had that are shelled and eaten fresh. I've also had garbonzo beans and edemae, but they've been canned. Beans here are dried and eaten with other things...in soup, baked in sauce, with rice, etc. I've never been able to identify half the beans I've eaten...I can identify the basics...kidney bean, limas, northern, pinto, cranberry, but most other beans look alike to me.

So they are snapped and cooked like green
beans, too? Not just for salads? Tell me why I should plant and like
wax beans.

They can be cooked like green beans. They aren't that different; a little more 'meaty' or mealy, maybe. They aren't grown much here, either. I just grow them because I like they way they look mixed with the greenbeans.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA




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