Leather Britches First, harvest your garden green beans before they got too full - while they are still young and the beans or pods inside are almost fully mature. This drying process will work for any variety of green bean that you raise in the garden. Wash and dry the green beans, snap off the tips and string as you normally would. Dont break the green beans up, leave them whole. Cut about a six foot length of the cotton sewing thread, thread your sewing needle, pulling the loose ends evenly together and tying an extra large knot in the end of the thread. This will give you about a three foot string to work with, but you can make it longer or shorter to meet your needs and the circumstances where the beans were to be hung. Sticking the needle through the middle of each bean. I dont mean down the center of the bean, just through the center, so both ends of the bean are loose. Fasten the first bean by wrapping the string around it and making a knot so it wont pull through. Then go on stringing till your strings full. Fasten the last bean the same as the first one Our house had a attic to hang them in. The beans will become dry and wrinkled in a few days - my mother took them down when she wanted to prepare them for a meal.They will dry in a dehydrator ,closet ,sheltered perch or carport. Leather britches are great winter meal. Take several strings for a large kettle and remove the cotton strings. Rinse well - let them soak overnight - drain off the water in the morning - add fresh water and then put them on to cook. When they boil up once, Pour off the first water to be certain they were clean and also to remove any bitter taste and add fresh water again. Toss in a ham bone, maybe a strip of bacon and an onion (to keep the beans company) and salt and pepper to taste. Cooked until tender and served hot.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:58:21 +0000
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