"mark" wrote in message
o.uk...

What can be done in a culinery way, with runner beans that are a bit too
stringy for the pot. Are they any good for soup?
There's lots!

No, they are no good for soup unless you want to pick them out when they
have added their flavour.
There are only three ways for runner beans. Eat them young, grow them for
seed next year or put them on the compost heap.
Once they are stringy you can't eat them. If they are stringy you should
have picked them earlier. Runner beans, once they are in full crop need
to be picked every day.

Tina