Shucked Beans

[@RealitySurvival]

Excellent video. I wasnt aware of that method of storage and cooking! Thanks!

[@mattjames9755]

Never heard of those... gives new meaning to the 'string beans' which I thought was just green beans... Thanks for the history lesson...

[@ronaldlarimer]

I come from a long line of southern cooks who can and freeze just about everything but this is a new one on me. I guess I will be forced to give it a try and take it to next years family reunion. (salt pork is a must)

[@1koolhick]

Brings back good memories of my Grandma making leather britches. Thanks for sharing.

[@17025601]

Great instructions for a preserving technique lots of us didn't know. Passing on the lore. Not likely to get botulism this way either. Thank you very much!

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Yep, you are cooking them after they are dried so it would kill anything on the beans anyway. Thanks for the comment!

[@theoldfarmerswife5915]

Thanks for teaching from garden to plate. I've never heard of them. Making me wish I'd grown beans this year

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Thanks for watching

[@12gaoobuck2]

Thank You I have seen them before never knew it was so easy to make

[@loujeanadams2500]

My husband agrees with him. I have a dehydrator, and when I tried making them in it, they held onto their green color better, but the flavor was not the same at all..The green staying in there, instead of going brown, somehow affected their flavor.. so I went right back to my white, quilting thread

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Loujean Adams Thanks for watching!

[@shiralboone5792]

brown paper bags is the best to store them in and the pepper is good or throw a bay leaf in the bag.

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Good tip, same way my great grandmother did it minus the bay leaf. Pepper repels the bugs! Thanks for watching!

[@BLACKIETHOMAS]

good job ya made me hungery lol safe journeys

[@mikeedmond4762]

Cool, I seem to remember my grandmother doing this when I was growing up in North Carolina. I haven't had any in years! Question though: Would frozen green beans work? I would like to try this and don't have a garden.

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Frozen beans do not work well with this method. Check your local farmers market or the fresh produce section of a local grocery store. Frozen beans work well in a food dehydrator but will have a completely different taste than beans dried using this method. Thanks for the comment!

[@laurabeattie3628]

Thank you for such an informative video!! I can't wait to try them. I have one question though..can you also use this method of drying to have seed to replant?

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Yes you can. I use it to save my seeds from year to year. Thanks for watching

[@shiralboone5792]

dont hang em on the porch if the humidity is too high or its raining.. I hang mine in the closet where my furnace is . If the weather is good like in September when the humidity goes down then the porch is the place .. LOL

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Humidity can effect the drying for sure. Don't want them to mold before you get them dried. Thanks for watching!

[@RedDogBushCraft]

Is this a standard green string bean?

[@EastWoodlandSurvival]

Yes sir, any type of green bean will work. I have used peanut, white half runners, mountain cut shorts, blue lake. They work best when the bean inside the pod is still young but are still fine with mature beans. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!

[@RedDogBushCraft]

I'll try it. Looks Great. Thanks

[@oldtimeway1]

Thanks for the fine video. My grandmother was from the south and I remember her telling about leather britches beans. Guess I always thought they were some special kind of bean to dry and not a regular green bean. What are October beans then?

[@edsutton276]

The best ones are called "greasy beans" they are an heirloom stringless variety.

[@oldtimeway1]

Are you talking leather britches now, or October beans?

[@edsutton276]

leather britches

[@edsutton276]

October beans are just the name of a variety of beans

[@oldtimeway1]

The way Grandma said, the October beans were shell beans and it was my understanding the leather britches were put up green and dried and then they reconstituted themselves when you parboiled them.