This section is from the book "Cooking Vegetables. Practical American Cookery", by Jules Arthur Harder. Also available from Amazon: The Physiology Of Taste.
Pois Rame. Die Spargelerbse.
No. 1743. - A hardy creeping annual plant. The pods are three inches long, with four longitudinal leafy membranes. The seeds are globular, slightly compressed, and yellowish-white in color. The ripened seeds are used as a substitute for coffee, and the pods, while young and tender, are prepared the same as string beans.
Sow it in double drills an inch and a half deep and two feet apart, the single rows being made twelve inches from each other.
 
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