I have a glut of beans
What, that? That’s not a glut of beans, that’s a serving for my dinner tonight. No, Uncle B has a whole raised bed of beans that’s likely to bean up before Winter. (He planted it to fix nitrogen in the soil. Very scientifical, these badgers).
I’m thinking of drying them. Have you ever? Brave AI tells me dried green beans are called ‘leather britches’ in the South. As a Southerner, I’m astonished. I know Leather Britches as a banjo and fiddle tune. I always thought it referred to something exciting like a blacksmith’s pants.
I might’ve known it would be beans.
The recipes agree that they need to be blanched for 5 minutes, but they differ on how to dry them. Some expect you to leave them on racks for weeks, but I have neither the space nor the climate for that. I think it will have to be a job for the dehydrator.
They call them French beans here and nobody knows why.
August 27, 2024 — 7:02 pm
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