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Farm Kitchen:  Anyone know how to dry beans..."Leather Britches"  |
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downbranchroad
True Blue Farmgirl
374 Posts
Joy
Southern
KY
USA
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 Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 09:44:41 AM
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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??
Appalachian Girl
Jem
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Sagewood
True Blue Farmgirl
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South Carolina
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 12:45:01 PM
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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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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 12:59:34 PM
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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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pinkroses
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheila
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 1:27:19 PM
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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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des
Farmgirl in Training
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Desiree
West Hurley
NY
USA
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Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 6:18:08 PM
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| 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. |
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Anyone know how to dry beans..."Leather Britches"
