leather britches

[eggman]

Has anyone tried to make these in a dehydrator?

[ronbre]

i have always made them by hanging to dry..not in the dehydrater..just used a thread and needle

[Horseyrider]

I used to thread them as Brenda does, but now I use the Excalibur. It goes faster, they dry more evenly, and are cleaner than the ones I hung up. Just not as pretty, although they're fairly attractive in jars.

When I was a child, my mom used to have leather britches beans on the stove on wash day, hence the name Wash Day Beans. She'd first fry some bacon or a ham hock, then brown some onion in the fat. Anywhere from a pint to a quart of homemade chicken stock goes in next, and a generous handful of leather britches beans. They'd simmer low and slow all day, and when you got hungry there were beans ready along with a pan of cornbread and some sliced tomatoes, if you were of a mind. It was wonderful eatin.'

[GrannyG]

When frozen green beans are on sale, I buy them...just open the bag and throw them on the trays and dehydrate them.....love to do frozen veggies, all the work is done...LOL..just dry them...I have jars of dried green beans, mixed veggies, carrots..love to find them on sale....

You can do just garden green beans in the dehydrator as well.....

[bhawkwind]

So I had to look up leather britches. I kept wondering how you were making pants in the dehydrator... Sigh. Growing up a city kid makes it interesting around here.

[vicker]

When I moved to WV my closest neighbor was an older widow woman who lived off grid in a cabin over the hill. We were good neighbors and liked each other fine. One day we were talking about leather britches and she reminisced about Fatman Beans, an heirloom bean, and how they made the best leather britches. She said she liked to harvest and dry them when they had almost mature beans inside, " I like mine with beans, in a bean." After a good bit of searching and procrastination I was able to get my hands on some seeds that I gave her. Sadly I never got to try her leather britches.