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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: oldwill on September 04, 2007, 10:43

Title: runner beans
Post by: oldwill on September 04, 2007, 10:43

Can you tell me if there is a way to preserve runner beans, i.e in jars?

Title: runner beans
Post by: muntjac on September 04, 2007, 10:53

allow to dry .naturally ....on newspaper in the sun or greenhouse .seal in jars use in soups and stews by soaking first  :wink: werks fer me

Title: runner beans
Post by: agapanthus on September 04, 2007, 10:53

Salted in sterilised jars. :)

Title: runner beans
Post by: upthetump on September 28, 2007, 14:49

try this oldwill, my friends loved it

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/spiced-pickled-runner-beans,1290,RC.html

Title: runner beans
Post by: Aunt Sally on September 28, 2007, 17:32

Wish I'd had that recipe a month or more back.  I'll keep it for nest year  :D

Title: runner beans
Post by: gobs on October 01, 2007, 07:05

might as well, shed is nice and cosy, ready for nesting... :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: runner beans
Post by: mushroom on October 01, 2007, 07:25

Quote from: "Aunt Sally"

Wish I'd had that recipe a month or more back.  I'll keep it for nest year  :D

what year are you nesting?  :lol:

Title: runner beans
Post by: DD. on October 01, 2007, 07:27

You two aren't trying to take the mickey out of Auntie are you? There'll be quite a queue for the 'norty' step!

Title: runner beans
Post by: mushroom on October 01, 2007, 07:30

:shock:  :D actually nest year is a fine figure of speech

Title: runner beans
Post by: gobs on October 01, 2007, 10:20

Quote from: "mushroom"

:shock:  :D actually nest year is a fine figure of speech

Also it is very witty.

Title: runner beans
Post by: Aunt Sally on October 01, 2007, 12:43

They will learn not to cross Aunty DD.  

Aunty has the big red distruct button  :lol:

Title: Re: runner beans
Post by: mashauk on October 09, 2007, 21:01

Quote from: "oldwill"

Can you tell me if there is a way to preserve runner beans, i.e in jars?

I made runner bean chutney with mine.