#dilly beans

[clatterbane]

The latest pickling experiment underway: dilly beans made with thawed-out commercial frozen green beans!

It seemed worth a try. You need to blanch fresh green beans for a few minutes anyway, to neutralize weird bean chemicals. Those are already blanched, and they stay crispy enough that it might work.

I haven't tried any from fresh green beans in years, and...that never turned out well before. Every batch I have made before molded on the top. Probably because the blanching does essentially pasteurize them, wiping out the natural lactobacteria hitching a ride on basically any kind of produce.

One way to get around this, I guess: mix things up!

I have certainly known people to pickle corn and beans separately, but never together like that. Guessing that probably is an extremely old combination, for some people. Throw in some squash, and you'd have some Three Sisters mixed pickles.

My Nana regularly did make dilly beans alongside the crocks of kraut and brine dill cucumbers. Guess she really liked that flavor profile too. No idea how she kept the beans from molding.

My original workaround thought was to try laying maybe a cabbage leaf in on top, as good as it is at fermenting itself. They're also great to help keep anything else from floating up to mold.

But, I decided to go one up this time, and fish a donor starter piece of leaf out of the last still-working batch! I had enough already out, so that jar got a couple of layers anyway. Plenty to go around.

I had expected the radish skins to leach a bunch of color, but not enough to turn the brine so pink!

That hopping active cabbage did almost immediately cloud up the top of the new brine. Taking that as a promising sign

Otherwise, that's got fairly standard dill pickle type seasonings. I did throw in another of those little frozen homegrown chiles, a big clove of garlic halved, and a pretty big sprig of fresh dill tucked down in the middle. Since I'm using dill from the store and don't have any seed heads, I also threw some dill seeds in the bottom with the peppercorns, mustard seeds, allspice, bay leaf, and a few of those nice Assam tea leaves for extra tannins to help keep things crispy.

Now in what I suppose is turning into the Pickle Drawer. I guess we'll see how this turns out. With any luck, it (a) won't go moldy, and (b) won't turn too strange a texture. I'll be counting this as a success if it does manage to meet those criteria. But, we'll see.

#personal #food #pickling #pickles #fermentation #dilly beans #pickled beans #appalachian food #native foods #clatterbane's pickle factory #green beans

[anchasta]

Just made two jars of these!

#recipes #dilly beans #pickled #I can pickle that #pixiespocket

[didntevenmakeit]

#did someone say #spicy #hot #dilly beans #pickles #pickled beans #pickled carrots #gayyyy #cottagecore #spicy hot pickled beans #they’re taking over my fridge #send help

[pariahfox]

While I'm reminded, that dilly beans experiment turned out good enough that I'm tempted to make some more soon! Just had to munch on a few more of them.

The cabbage leaf on top did indeed apparently serve as enough of a starter that there was no sign of mold at any point. That was from another jar which had already been going for a couple of days (because I did have a handy spare leaf to borrow), and the beans took off really quickly.

They are nice and crispy, if a little tough on the skins. Which I think may be down to the commercially-grown variety more than the fact that they were previously frozen. The texture is surprisingly good otherwise. This batch could have had more dill flavor, but that should be easy enough to remedy next time.

Overall, very glad I did decide to give this another go. Guessing that just plain cabbage leaf to hold things down might be plenty of a fresh non-blanched veggie starter addition for the next batch.

#food #pickles #dilly beans #clatterbane's pickle factory #brine pickles #fermentation #pickled beans

[rat-hand]

🫛dilly beans!

#dilly beans #pickles #pickled green beans #i used the recipe I posted earlier #preserving food #farm #farmlife #farmblr #cottagecore #Appalachia #southern cooking #canning #canning veggies

[wondersxwomen]

My favorite part of summer is here! Harvest time.  

At our house harvest time starts in the middle of June and lasts through October.

Yesterday we enjoyed our first harvest of beans. We were able to get 5 lbs out of the first batch.

Our bean harvest typically lasts 2 to 3 weeks so we need to preserve the beans as fast as we pick them, otherwise all of the food goes to waste.

One of our favorite bean recipes for snacking on is Dilly Beans. 

Yesterday I made our normal recipe and I also tried a Sweet Dilly Bean recipe a friend recommended.  Below are the recipes and directions for both.

Sweet Dilly Bean Recipe:

Making this recipe is similar to normal Dilly Beans. This recipe makes 4 Quarts.

You will need 3 lbs whole Green Beans 1/4 teaspoon Celery Seed (per quart Jar) 1/2 teaspoon Mustard Seeds (per quart Jar) 1/2 teaspoon dill seeds (per quart Jar) Fresh Dill 3 small cloves of garlic (per quart jar) 5 cups vinegar 5 cups water 3 bags of Mrs. Wages Dilled Green Beans Mix 3 Cups of Sugar

Before you begin working with the food prep all of your materials. Fill your caner bath with water and turn on the heat so that it is boiling when you are ready to can.

Wash your four quart jars, and lids, in soap and water . Most recipes you see on line will tell you to clean jars in boiling water.  This was how they cleaned things in the old days, back when people made their own soap.  Soap today is able to clean these jars well enough to skip boiling them. Set your jars up in your work space.

Wash your beans in a mix of vinegar and cold water.

Remove the tops and bottoms of the beans. You can do this by hand or with a scissors.

Place 1/4 teaspoon Celery Seed, 1/2 teaspoon Mustard Seeds, 1/2 teaspoon dill seeds, Fresh Dill and 3 small cloves of garlic in each quart jar. Pack beans into jars.

In a large pot bring 5 1/2 cups vinegar and 5 1/2 cups of water to a boil.  Add 3 bags of Mrs. Wages Dilled Green Beans Mix 3 Cups of Sugar into boiling mixture.

Ladle the hot brine mixture into the jars.  Leave 1/4in head space at the top.

Put lids on the jars and place in caner bath.  Make sure that at least an inch of water is above the jars.   Place lid on top of bath and boil for 20min.   Remove jars from bath and allow to stand for 24 hours . If lids do not pop inward, when pressed on, after 24 hours, they are safe to store.

#wonders by women #gardening #food preservation #gardener #Dilly Beans

[claireelizabeth-1994]

Dilly Beans

#Dilly Beans

[chusthestore]

Dilly Beans

#Dilly Beans

[brattylikestoeat]

#Dilly White bean salad #white beans #cucumber #beans #TikTok #TikTok food #brattylikestoeat #food #foodlr #food blog #video #foodie #cooking stim #stim cooking #savory stim #yummy

[writinginthesecrettrees]

she so PRETTY

#poppy and dilly #cat #this is poppy #lookit the beans!!! #i am so LUCKY she loves belly rubs and bean massages

[jvten]

blah blah blah violations of the geneva convention whatEVER. he had no business being THIS FINE in (the first version of) percy jackson.

#sean bean #percy jackson #pjo the lightning thief #i know we don't talk about the old version... BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW HE ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS IN THE OPENING SCENE OF LIGHTNING THIEF #how did i forget he was zeus anyway. #(probably because i hadn't watched the lightning thief for maybe almost ten years until last night) #hhhh curse you sean how could you do this to me /nm #it's not even zeus im attracted to because i know zeus in general is the worst greek god - it's just SEAN IN A SUIT THAT DOES IT FOR ME DHJ #also no joke i literally wore the same outfit that he wears in this scene in some play i did a few months ago #if i ever get to wear it again i'll take a better-quality picture of myself and compare 🔥 #but in the meantime. stares copiously at this fine man #WHEN I TELL YOU THIS MAN IS SO FINE #WHEN I TELL YOU THIS MAN IS SCRUM-DILLI-ISHIOUS #HE MAKE ME WANNA *lands on floor violently* ON GOD #/ref /silly #keheheheh

[seiwas]

dilly i love u @crysugu

#u angel of a bean !!!!!!! #all my kissies and huggies for u !!!! #i will bake u all the cookies !!!! make u all the coffee !!!! 🥺💗🍪☕️ #i love u !!!! #dilly tag

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

When my green beans come in they come! I’ve extolled the virtues of Emerite pole beans before. The abundance is shared with neighbors and I peruse my green beans recipe folder for new ways to use them.

Refrigerator Dilly Green Beans was easy and quick as we dealt with 65 pounds of nectaplums late in the week.

This is some of the haul as we stripped the two trees. Though a luscious fruit, they are fragile and losses occur when kept at room temperature very long. Neighbors receive the nectaplums readily and I delivered about 40 pounds over the weekend.

Last night I found myself making a crostata at 8 p.m. with fruit that would not survive until morning and the fridge was full. Thankfully, my husband prepped the nectaplums and there was a premade piecrust in the freezer.

And that was after an afternoon of making nectaplum-raspberry jam. I made the first batch as a trial to freeze and refrigerate and the second I processed.

I’m thankful we have a respite from apricots, apples and nectaplums before the strawberry guavas ripen late next month. The freezer is full of sauces, fruit puree for homemade ice cream and various other delights to preserve the goodness.

And the promising marionberry crop was very good until it wasn’t. Winter rains may have produced a large crop but after a few weeks the botrytis fungus won out following a spate of overcast, dank days.

And Sunday’s church entry bouquet: grevillea, leucadendron, gomphrena, eleagnus and pennisetum.

For the remainder of August, I’ll generally be posting on Mondays and Thursdays instead of the usual M-W-F routine. Enjoy the waning summer days (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere)!

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I add to the summer garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

#pole beans #Emerite pole beans #dilly green beans #nectaplums #summer fruit desserts #marionberries

[anonymous2000z]

She took everything from me... ಥ⁠╭⁠╮⁠ಥ

#lol #make your day #dogs of tumblr #i love her #Dilly bean #she took my bed

[winterlynette]

Dilly Beans

#Dilly #Beans

[rat-hand]

Pickled grape leaves 🍇

#i had some pickling liquid left after making the dilly beans #so decided to try something out #I have already wanted to make my own dulmas #now I will be trying it #pickled grape leaves #pickling #canning #farm #farmblr #farm life #cottagecore #Appalachia