We went to the allotment today and it's all lying on the ground, canes,
beans the lot. So we brought home the beans, shucked them, and now we've got
a washing up bowl full of beans. We haven't let them go long enough to use
as beans rather than pods before, what now? I assume the purplish outer skin
is to go, but that's going to be a huge fiddly operation, how best to remove
it? will it come away any easier when dried or frozen?

TIA

Steve