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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Rusty Hinge
2 writes The message from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words: You are jumping to conclusions! I regard runner beans of that size as much inferior to smaller ones, not because they are stringy, but because they are more watery. And feeding them won't help reduce that! I prefer the flavour of larger ones - not larger so that the skins contain toenails and the sides are held together with packaging-plasticbandlike strips though... I'm inclined to agree. I gave a handful of my runners, up to about 10" in length to a lady friend yesterday, and after eating them with her evening meal she declared them tender and completely free from strings. The seeds are Suttons and the variety "Best of All", which I have never grown before. I nearly always grew Scarlet Emperor, and they could get stringy at that length. There is quite a difference in texture between pods from the same plant, some do appear leathery, but no strings, and tender after about 90 seconds in the microwave. Froze another batch today... -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Nick Maclaren
writes In article , Gordon H writes: | In message , Rusty Hinge | 2 writes | | Shiver me timbers! (And avast behind!) | | Vast behind? I may be ancient, but I still have buns of steel! Is it a blimp? Is it a whale? No, it's Superbum! Regards, Nick Maclaren. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVtycu6WVQ Keep watching past the first item... ;-) -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
Gordon H wrote:
In message , Nick Maclaren writes In article , Gordon H writes: | In message , Rusty Hinge | 2 writes | | Shiver me timbers! (And avast behind!) | | Vast behind? I may be ancient, but I still have buns of steel! Is it a blimp? Is it a whale? No, it's Superbum! Regards, Nick Maclaren. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVtycu6WVQ Keep watching past the first item... ;-) .....an vyile I do. vant zum 'elp wit da beenz? Daring Dolores. |
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Freezing Runner Beans
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from Judith in France contains these words: I like both, at the moment they are very small as they are not doing too well but last year in England we had a glut, they were big but very tender and lovely with lamb gravy and Yorkshire pudding. I have introduced my French neighbours to that, as a first course!!! Eee bah gum lass! Fill t'boogers oop wi pouddin', and they worun't want so mooch meat, appen! -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Freezing Runner Beans
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from Gordon H contains these words: In message , Rusty Hinge 2 writes The message from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words: You are jumping to conclusions! I regard runner beans of that size as much inferior to smaller ones, not because they are stringy, but because they are more watery. And feeding them won't help reduce that! I prefer the flavour of larger ones - not larger so that the skins contain toenails and the sides are held together with packaging-plasticbandlike strips though... I'm inclined to agree. I gave a handful of my runners, up to about 10" in length to a lady friend yesterday, and after eating them with her evening meal she declared them tender and completely free from strings. The seeds are Suttons and the variety "Best of All", which I have never grown before. I nearly always grew Scarlet Emperor, and they could get stringy at that length. There is quite a difference in texture between pods from the same plant, some do appear leathery, but no strings, and tender after about 90 seconds in the microwave. Mine went in late this year, and the first ones haven't even reached half a Maclaren yet. Froze another batch today... Froze some of my neighbour's crop today, just to keep me going until mine start to get to a sensible size. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Freezing Runner Beans
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from AriesVal contains these words: I haven't frozen any of mine yet but will do. I found that left over cooked ones are very good cold as a salad with a nice olive oil dressing on them. And may be used instead of (or as well as) cabbage in bubble and squeak. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Freezing Runner Beans
Anne Welsh Jackson wrote:
Bobbie wrote: Gordon H wrote: Nick Maclaren writes Gordon H writes: | Rusty Hinge2 writes | | Shiver me timbers! (And avast behind!) | | Vast behind? I may be ancient, but I still have buns of steel! Is it a blimp? Is it a whale? No, it's Superbum! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVtycu6WVQ Keep watching past the first item... ;-) .....an vyile I do. vant zum 'elp wit da beenz? Daring Dolores. 'Ello Dolly! You bin 'angin' around long? Vee iz loosink ow vay. Vee iz runnink beenz . und yoo? Coom here offen? Dolly. |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , AriesVal
writes On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:11:30 +0100, Gordon H wrote: The seeds are Suttons and the variety "Best of All", Lines suppressed manually and constructively I order most of my seeds, potato and onion sets from Suttons, have done for years and found them to be most reliable. I just bought them for somewhere, but I will look for Suttons next time. I haven't frozen any of mine yet but will do. I found that left over cooked ones are very good cold as a salad with a nice olive oil dressing on them. Yes indeed, I thought of doing that when I had two salad meals last week, but there was enough 'stuff' without beans. -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Rusty Hinge
2 writes Mine went in late this year, and the first ones haven't even reached half a Maclaren yet. I'm still working that out.... -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Bobbie
writes Gordon H wrote: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVtycu6WVQ Keep watching past the first item... ;-) ....an vyile I do. vant zum 'elp wit da beenz? Daring Dolores. Hoarse voicesings "If you wanna touch me" -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In article , Gordon H writes: | In message , Rusty Hinge | 2 writes | | Mine went in late this year, and the first ones haven't even reached | half a Maclaren yet. | | I'm still working that out.... Half a Maclaren, when used as a measure of the size of runner beans, is 3". Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In article , Martin writes: | | Half a Maclaren, when used as a measure of the size of runner beans, | is 3". | | Your nowt but a wee lad, Nick. Well, I would be, if I were a runner bean! Now, being brought up more on sweetcorn than runner beans, half a Maclaren is 5" and 1.5" thick. A full Maclaren is too much for most Brits. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Nick Maclaren
writes In article , Gordon H writes: | In message , Rusty Hinge | 2 writes | | Mine went in late this year, and the first ones haven't even reached | half a Maclaren yet. | | I'm still working that out.... Half a Maclaren, when used as a measure of the size of runner beans, is 3". Thank you. Some of mine are 1.5 Maclarens, but please don't think I'm bragging. :-) -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
In message , Nick Maclaren
writes In article , Martin writes: | | Half a Maclaren, when used as a measure of the size of runner beans, | is 3". | | Your nowt but a wee lad, Nick. Well, I would be, if I were a runner bean! Now, being brought up more on sweetcorn than runner beans, half a Maclaren is 5" and 1.5" thick. A full Maclaren is too much for most Brits. LOL! -- Gordon H |
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Freezing Runner Beans
The message
from Martin contains these words: On 14 Aug 2008 12:29:55 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , Gordon H writes: | In message , Rusty Hinge | 2 writes | | Mine went in late this year, and the first ones haven't even reached | half a Maclaren yet. | | I'm still working that out.... Half a Maclaren, when used as a measure of the size of runner beans, is 3". Your nowt but a wee lad, Nick. Eat yer heart out, John Holmes... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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