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Default Skinning Garbanzo Beans?

On 10 Dec 2010 17:19:15 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

> On Fri 10 Dec 2010 10:02:35a, sf told us...
>
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:08:46 -0800 (PST), Nan >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Try your favorite recipe and use lime juice instead of lemon. May
> >> not be authentic, but it sure is good. And using garbanza beans
> >> instead of chick peas is very smooth and only slightly different
> >> in flavor for a little variety.

> >
> > I thought "chick pea" was just another name for "garbanzo bean".
> > What I didn't know before yesterday was that they come split,
> > dried and shelled if you know where to look. I'll keep an eye out
> > for that form and maybe one of these days, I'll try my hand at
> > making hummus.
> >

>
> I thought they were also known as cici beans.


Yes, but they don't use that term much in rfc or where I live. Is
cici a more common term on the East Coast?

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