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| downbranchroad |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 09:44:41 AM
My granny always dried a lot of foods. I remember a dried green bean that she called "Leather Britches". Anyone know how to do those??
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| des |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 6:18:08 PM
If I recall correctly, you take your beans (in the pod) and run a needle and thread through them, then hang them to dry. I know this is in one of the Foxfire books, which you might want to get through your library. One of my little self-idulgent dreams is to one day own the complete Foxfire series. |
| pinkroses |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 1:27:19 PM
I remember one of my grandmothers doing it
not sure how she did it though
Mom talked a bit about them
her Mom use to make them too; but I don't
remember them, pinkroses
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 12:59:34 PM
I grow a heritage mix of dry beans, I love all the different colors. I leave them in the ground as long as possible in the fall (til they're yellowed), then pull them up roots and all and hang to dry. When they're bone dry I just shell them and store them in jars. If our fall is damp, which is not unlikely here on the "wet" coast, I just hang them in the greenhouse to dry.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 12:47:03 PM
by the way .. this lady was raised in the mountains of Kentucky!
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 12:45:01 PM
ha! i found this cute story on the internet about Leather Britches (or Shuckey Beans)
the southern, old fashioned, way of cooking green beans.
Passed down from a granny.
You need a garden cause this takes a lot of green beans.
Snap beans, don't wash, spread on newspaper and put in hot dry place, like an attic.
Let dry for a few weeks till they are really dry. Put in a pillow case and hang on clothes
line all day in hot sun. Put in jars, no need to seal, and sprinkle with
cayenne pepper (to keep out the bugs) according to Grandma.
When ready to cook, wash and soak overnight. Wash again and put in pot with big hunk of
salt pork. Cook several hours. Serve with green onions, maybe some
homemade bread and butter pickles and a wedge of cracklin corn bread.
this sounds deeeeeeeeelish to me .. yep .. jus' dried beans!
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| Sagewood |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 11:54:03 AM
Don't know if that's what my grandmother called them, but she simply dried green beans on a string. She'd sew through the bean, stringing it on a sturdy thread and do them in rows of about 3ft, then hang on her porch to dry. That's it, that's all she did.
I still dry 'chilli peppers' the same way.
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