"Gill Matthews" wrote in message
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: "Gill Matthews" wrote in message
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: : 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?
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: : TIA
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: : Steve
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: : The purplish outer skin can be left on for dishes of a chilli con
carne,
: 5
: : bean salad etc. type. I would also leave the skin on if you were
: thinking
: : of making bean curds and remove it only at a later filtering stage.
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: : Gill M
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: Use them as they are for next year's seeds
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: Depends what they were and what was being grown round about. If they were
: F1 hybrids you would probably get more variability than may be desirable.
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: Gill M
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naaaaaaaaaaa a runner bean will produce runner beans, that's what they do