[Anton]

Advice please. Our freezer is almost full dwarf and runner beans and there are tonnes more now starting to appear. Apart from freezing, any ideas about how to conserve them? I once stored them in salt but although they kept their lovely colour they were impossible to eat. The salty flavour was awful.
I read somewhere about people threading the beans and hanging them up to dry to be used later on. Any suggestions?

Anton

[Yorkie]

Chutney?

[Hampshire Hog]

You might be able to dry some of the larger beans after podding them.
They would then need to be rehydrated prior to use in soup/curry etc.
 

[Anton]

Thanks for your response.

Check this out: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/string-beans-leather-britches-137792

[wighty]

I have a runner bean chutney recipe, that I got from this site somewhere, years ago, printed it off with intentions of making it.  I'm turning out the eight box files of recipes from recipes printed here, torn out of the newspaper, magazines etc., that I'm going to cook 'one day'.  I'll keep looking, but ask Val, she is the recipe keeper for the site.

[Anton]

Thanks. At the moment, we are eating a lot of "bonen soup". Dwarf bean soup, a favourite with my wife's Luxembourg family.

Anton

[Val H]

https://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/1440/runner-bean-chutney-recipe/

There's loads more recipes and/or preserves for beans in the Recipes section of the site.

[Anton]

Thanks.

Anton