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Post by robertb on Mar 5, 2010 8:36:27 GMT -5
Are these a variety or a type of pea? I've come across the word being used with both meanings, and I've ended up wondering whether the term is really any more than the continental equivalent of 'purple-podded pea'.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 5, 2010 11:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by robertb on Mar 5, 2010 12:44:54 GMT -5
If that's correct, it's a type of pea, which is what I thought. What colour pods do they have? I have some seed on the way, but I like to understand things as well as growing them!
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 5, 2010 12:56:35 GMT -5
Probably purple; to my knowedge, Blau capujiners is by far the most common strain on the market. I'm sure that others exist but purple pod is the most likey coming to you.
As someone who did once grow these, I should warn you that, article notwitstadning they are not a particualry tasty soup pea (though a lot better the the "camo peas" I grow now which have so many ancient and near wild genes that they are funtionally inedible.), they are quite old as a strain and date back to the days when a crops principal virtues were its hardiness, disease restaince and yield, not its taste. Once person I bough from recommended soaking them in water and then frying them with bacon, you could try that.
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Post by robertb on Mar 5, 2010 15:01:32 GMT -5
By the time we've added chilli and all the other stuff we use, it doesn't make much difference! I want old varieties for historial interest, taste isn't so important.
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Post by crazytomato on Mar 5, 2010 17:38:14 GMT -5
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Post by robertb on Mar 5, 2010 18:54:40 GMT -5
The pics look just like our purple podded peas, so it's going to be interesting to compare them. What does Blauwschokkers mean? Is Ezethas Krombek Bauwschok a capucijner?
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Post by stratcat on Mar 6, 2010 3:06:08 GMT -5
What does Blauwschokkers mean? Blue shucks, from what I remember. I've grown Blauwschokkers a few times and am thinking of growing it again. Another use for the peas was for fodder. |
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Post by crazytomato on Mar 6, 2010 7:53:57 GMT -5
blauwschokkers is another word for capucijner peas.In some part of holland they call them blauwschokkers and in some other part they call them capucijners.In the kitchen and by the greengrossers they almost always call them capucijners.
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