Quote:
Originally Posted by David Hill
On 09/08/2013 23:45, kay wrote:
Bob Hobden;989422 Wrote:
I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours
than
I've had with the excess runner beans. :-)
The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with
late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes.
I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise
it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't
make jams from vegetables".
Actually Tomatoes are Fruit
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It depends on the purpose of the classification. Botanically speaking, runner beans are fruit and rhubarb is a stem, for culinary purposes runner beans are vegetables and rhubarb is a fruit.
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