Re: Freezing broad beans in the pod

"Ed" <ex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 06/07/08 14:34, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
>> The message <g4qcam$lgr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> from nmm1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
>>> In article <6dbqc7F1okhvU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Broadback <wen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>>> |> I love broad beans, but love very young ones eaten pod and all!
They 
>>> |> mature so rapidly I wondered are as good, or nearly as good, after 
>>> being |> frozen? That way I can have it both ways.
>>
>>> Well, there's an easy way to find out ....
>>
>> And if the pods don't come up to scratch, you can always make soup - or
>> wine from them...
>>
>
> Broad bean wine? Really?  There surely not enuff sugar in em like there
is 
> in fruit or some other crops like parsnips?

AFAIK there's precious little sugar in parsnips which is directly 
fermentable by wine yeast.