Posted by flowerpot on June 29, 2005, 9:22 am
I just picked some because the pods were horizontal on the plant, but
inside the beans are the same size as peas.
Many thanks
flowerpot
Posted by The Reids on June 29, 2005, 11:10 am
they are ready right from small pods. Eat the small ones whole
very early, then as they grow bigger pod them and then by now (in
the south) they have developed a skin on the bean itself which,
if they are to have any flavour you need to blanch for 2 minutes,
refresh and peel the beans.A right pain.
If you knew all that already then the answer is test a sample
bean!
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Posted by The Reids on June 29, 2005, 11:17 am
Following up to flowerpot
>but
>inside the beans are the same size as peas.
just realised I absent mindedly replied without reading the
body! Oh well. Pea size should taste really good but mine are by
now much bigger than that so I wonder if you have a problem?
That's expert territory......
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Posted by Rod on June 29, 2005, 4:30 pm
>I just picked some because the pods were horizontal on the plant, but
>inside the beans are the same size as peas.
Soon they'll start to droop below the horizontal and they'll be ready,
just open a sample pod now and again to get 'em how you like 'em. When
you pod them and the beans come away, look at the scar where they've
come away - if its going black you've left them too long, they'll be
tough.
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Posted by Mike Lyle on June 29, 2005, 5:01 pm
Rod wrote:
wrote:
>> I just picked some because the pods were horizontal on the plant,
but
>> inside the beans are the same size as peas.
>>
> Soon they'll start to droop below the horizontal and they'll be
ready,
> just open a sample pod now and again to get 'em how you like 'em.
When
> you pod them and the beans come away, look at the scar where
they've
> come away - if its going black you've left them too long, they'll
be
> tough.
OK, so does anybody know what my Sicilian grandfather (born 1860 if
you can believe it) probably did when he made what my mother
describes as a delicious sauce for pasta with, as far as she can
remember, little but broad beans? I got some dried broad beans in the
local Asian delicacy emporium, and couldn't do anything striking with
them. Elizabeth David, though in other respects a clearer candidate
for canonisation than some I could name, is no help.
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>inside the beans are the same size as peas.