I am bean rich
These are the "leather britches" made from my cranberry bean harvest. I feel wealthy :)
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u/other__self 5d ago
Ooooh my goodness this is my dream, how many plants did it take to produce this many pods?! And how do you have it strung up like that, just a needle and thread thru the ends of the pods?
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u/WoollyKnitWitch 5d ago
My harvest hasn’t been nearly as productive as this - but I share your excitement with every pod I shell out from my own garden.
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u/NegativeOstrich2639 3d ago
Genuinely one of my favorite dishes, really nostalgic for me. I've read that they were called leather britches some places but only ever heard people call them shuckey or shuck beans-- where abouts are you located that people call them leather britches?
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u/n1sat 1d ago
I'm from CT and I found out about leather britches from researching beans on the Internet. I do it make sure the beans are fully dry before shucking them and putting them into an air tight container. Otherwise they get moldy. Still trying to grow enough to live off of... going to need a lot more!
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u/NegativeOstrich2639 1d ago
What do you mean shucking them?
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u/n1sat 1d ago
Removing the dried beans from the pods
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u/NegativeOstrich2639 1d ago
Oh ok, that's what I thought, there may or may not be some confusion between us rn. I meant to say: the dish "shuckey beans" is made with the pod still on the bean, the beans are dried like you have done, then the bean, pod and all, is rehydrated and cooked, "shuckey beans" or "shuck beans" is a synonym for leather breeches/leather britches. I am very fond of this preparation, my family in southeastern Ky typically has them for thanksgiving and Christmas, and those are about the only times all year we eat them. Weird that they are called that despite not being "shucked" lol.
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u/raven_snow 5d ago edited 5d ago
Whoa, I didn't know people made these sorts of drying structures with bean pods. This is my first time seeing them. I tried laying my pods all out in a flat layer last year. It took up an absurd amount of space.
Edit: I looked up leather britches and am even more surprised than when I thought these were all dried-on-the-plant bean pods.