Hey! all you bean eaters Dried pinto beans are speckled, white and brown. When cooked, they turn a deep red or perhaps some would say brown. Dried cranberry beans are very much like the pinto, except they are a little larger and not as "gassy". They have a better flavor and are preferred by some over the pinto. Eddie, pinto and cranberry beans are of different varieties. Both go under the generic name of soup beans. October beans is another variety, generally allowed to dry on the vine, thrashed and used like soup beans. Any dried bean may be used in soup. Some are preferred to others. At 11:22 PM 2/21/99 -0500, Edgar A. Howard wrote: > I think you are all full of beans. <g> > > Pinto are not red. Red beans are red. Pinto are speckled with dry >and brown. We called them Pintos, brown beans, or soup beans. >Some people call the white, or Navy beans, soup beans too. In S. CA. >they were called something else. I think cramberry beans. The >Mexicans eat them like crazy. >Have you heard of October beans? Are they different from pintos?? > > I think it is time to move on to another course in this meal. > > Did any of your people make cheese?? We made cottage cheeze. >-eddie > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#2 A large database of SURNAMES and the researcher's email address can be found at >http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/quarrybank/194/swabc.htm >You may have your SURNAMES included by posting them and your address to the >LIST and NOT to the sysop/owner. > David. M. Burke deburgh@scescape.net