On 19 Mar, 14:44, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:37:36 +0000 (GMT), wrote:
In article , wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

We certainly ate a lot of runner beans and when we got sick of them he would
salt them in jars for winter. *We always had home grown runner beans with
our Christmas dinner.

Ooh, how does the salted jars work? *Whole bean pods or just the beans?
Blanched first? *How much salt? *And then how do you serve?

You string them, slice them (you could/can? buy special devices)
and layer them with a LOT of salt. *You then take them out, soak
them in cold water, throw it away, and they are STILL disgustingly
salty. *Don't bother.

Two generations of a local Dutch family made a fortune salting and pickling
vegetables that they exported to UK. I asked what they tasted like and the
answer was similar to yours.
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Martin

The trouble is that now people are spoiled by getting almost all veg
at any time of the year.
When you only had them in season preserved fruit and veg were a treat.
Salted runner beans were good, but you had to blanch, then dry
thouroughly, use rock salt to salt them down with and seal in airtight
jars, Killner jars normaly.
We didnt like Broad beans but always grew some to pick at finger size
and slice as green beans. A bit wooly but when you havn't had fresh
beans for 6 months they were great.
In my early days market gardening in the early 60's the first English
Tomatoes, and the first strawberries would make £1.00 a pound, the
price would fall rapidly, but it was always the aim to get a few boxes
at those prices.
David Hill

The trouble is that now people are spoiled by getting almost all veg
at any time of the year.
When you only had them in season preserved fruit and veg were a treat.
Salted runner beans were good, but you had to blanch, then dry
thouroughly, use rock salt to salt them down with and seal in airtight
jars, Killner jars normaly.
We didnt like Broad beans but always grew some to pick at finger size
and slice as green beans. A bit wooly but when you havn't had fresh
beans for 6 months they were great.
In my early days market gardening in the early 60's the first English
Tomatoes, and the first strawberries would make £1.00 a pound, the
price would fall rapidly, but it was always the aim to get a few boxes
at those prices.
David Hill- Hide quoted text -

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For slicing beans I have always used one of these slicers
http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/f...ean-slicer.jpg
I have found that the top on most of the modern one comes off and you
can remove every other blade to give you thicker slices. Then glue it
back together,
Though the old Zipp slicers didn't come appart.
David hill