you talked about pickled beans!!!! have you ever had mixed pickles or as some call it pickle lilly.. you fix it in a churn and let it work before you can it. you take green beans ( half white runners) cabbage green tomatoes onions corn, hot pepper and put in the churn. with a little salt cover the churn with cheese cloth let it work for a about two to three weeks then you put it canning jars and seal. in the winter you fix some soup beans (pinto) boiled potatoes, corn bread turnip greens open up a jar of the mixed pickles fry it and you have a meal fit for a king . OH!! I almost for got get you a good piece of salt bacon slice it and fry some of it also and watch your old blood ps. go up but the meal is worth it. -----Original Message----- From: zandra s walker <ZWALKERMBROWN@prodigy.net> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 7:21 PM Subject: Unidentified subject! >Hi all, >I have really enjoyed all the talk about leather britches and feather beds >and how about pickled beans my favorate. Without the stories about the >times and the lives of the people, genealogy is nothing but a name and a >date. I had forgotten about my grandmothers beans until ya'll started >talking about them and all the old memories came flooding in. The stories >about the depression have given me new insite into my grandmothers' >personality. >Thanks to all >Zandra > > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#8 Anyone interested and researching SW VA and Appalachian history might >be interested in the Fincastle History Forum list. Contact Edgar at >ehoward@conknet.com or swvaroot@swva.net for a copy of the rules. >