thanks everyone......it appears that perhaps it should be the Great Northern
white bean......
not a recipe but simply food recommendations out of the Blood Type diet book
thanks for your help
C


"Curly Sue" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:12:00 -0400, "Steve & Chris Clark"
> > wrote:
>
> >Could someone tell me what one is referring to specifically when "white
> >beans" are called for? I know it's not a navy bean, or white kidney bean
or
> >lima bean........actually it's from the blood type diet book........
> >thanks in advance
> >Chris
>
> What is the recipe? In Mario Batali's Italian cookbooks, "white
> beans" are certainly white kidney beans (cannellini).
>
> For Senate bean soup or Boston Baked Beans, it would be navy beans
> (although I prefer Great Northern for the baked beans).
>
> I once had some French dried white beans too...
>
> For many things any of the white beans would do, though they might
> taste somewhat different.
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!


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