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“The new variety. tastes
almost like candy. It’s

. delicious rag as well as
_ cooked. ;

_.. Overcooking Sugar Snap
‘peas. makes the pods come
apart and the peas taste
common:

Jike the

Starting early next year,
the new variety will be

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few California growers have
_ already planted it and expect
to send their harvest to

_ larger markets by March or
April, says Caicin Lamorn. —

Lamborn is research direc- —

tor for Fallatin Valley Seed
Co. of Twin Falls, Idaho,
which specializes in develop-
ing pea and bean seeds. for

industry”

‘ In a telephone interview,
Lamborn said Sugar Snap is
a by-product of the cdém-
pany’s commercial program.

The public can. buy the
seeds - not from Gallatin -

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and Canadian garden seed
retailers in their 1979 cat-
alogues. ’ :

The new peas have alteady
been chosen as a Gold Medal
winner by All-American Sel-
ections, a non-profit educa-
tional organization for eval-
uating mew seed:
flowers and vegetables. It is
based in Los Altos, Calif. -

The new peas should ' be
most areas, Lamborn said,
but have been planted with
good results in the south in
the fall. They take about 70

days to produce the first
edible pods.

The new variety bears
almost no resemblance to
flat-podded snow or sugar
peas ‘popular for oriental
cooking. The latter must be
picked while immature to
avoid toughness.

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Sugar Snaps are at their
best when the pods are two

‘and a half to three inches

long and plump with mature

peas. The pod walls become

sweeter as the peas develop,
‘but should be picked before
the pods become netted. «

They can be cooked whole

"or shelled. Raw. pods with

peas removed make a del-
icious addition to mixed

_ salads and are equally good
': with cocktail dips.

All-Ametican - Selections,

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won't stand up to canning.

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_ The recommended cooking
methods are stir-frying or
turn the pods a vivid green.
In either case, they should
remain crunchy. .

Lamborn said the new
variety was almost 10 years
in development, although the

' type has been know at least
» half a century.

He estimated it will take
five to ten years more to
develop a stringless variety

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‘six feet,

‘almost as sweet as candy

that can be machine harvest-
ed for processing.

He said vines for’ the
present variety reach four to
too high for
mechanical picking. And ant
pods have tough strings tha

must. be removed. by hand _

before eating or cooking.

A nutritional profile of
Sugar Snap includes protein

- content of about 2.8; caloric

content, about.44.5 pen 100
gram serving. That’s almost

four ounces, or about 15
mature peapods.

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contains about 600 units of
vitamin A and about 31.2
units of Vitamin Cand lesser

amounts of A, . three B.

vitamins, three minerals and
sodium and potassium.

Lamborn estimated that
retail prices for fresh peas at
markets initially will be as
expensive as fresh snow peas
because of limited availab-
ility.

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