We didn't have a deep freeze so Mom dryed hers put them in a sack leaving them on a string put red pepper in them to keep bugs out. We called them shuck beans. So good.
Justro I have strung so many beans when I was at home it probably would be miles long. Daddy would buy heavy quilting thread and large needles to usefor stringing. All five girls would help Mom string themup while daddy kept stringing beans daddy would hang them on porch to dry and then stored them in brown paper bags for winter
I remember mama stringing beans shw used match sticks as a stopper when I was a smart alec teenager I went to this girls home and her mother was snapping beans and pulling the strings from them and she called it stringing beans me being the smart one I showed her how to string them properly and they had a good laugh at me saying why in the world would anyone go to that much trouble come to find out they came from the city , you can guess what they nick named me !
im looking forward to seeing how long you cook them and the consistency etc . nice decorating touch! 🤠 i read somewhere about a lady who had an old car in her yard. i think it was her husbands and he passed away and she couldn't get rid of it. she always dries apples and got to thinking about that car just sitting there not being used because she couldn't drive. she always layed her apples out on screens to dry. she took them and put inside that car and the heat and sun dries them in no time. she said only thing was the car always smelled like apples to this day.
I use our car lots of times, to dry herbs, it gets really hot in there! Very wet and rainy lots of times at the end of summer where we live, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.
Well, I never thought I’d get to see from the perspective of a bean being strung upside down.😂 I love it. Love the decor too. I knew about leather britches when I was a teen because my parents always loved the old ways, antique stores, etc including things they had never done. My mom and I picked up a little mountain ways cookbook back then and we were intrigued with how they dried beans and I still have it. Thanks for all these details. The devil is in the details so will help keep me from making too many mistakes. (Amen, amen, amen to what you said about keeping your health and away from certain places if you can help it. I fully understand what you’re talking about.)💚👏
I wish I had neighbors like you and Tipper so I could conveniently appear at supper time so I might get an invite to share a tasty meal with some real down home folk!
I know what they are lol-I was raised with my grandmother telling me stories about how they did things.I haven't heard that word leather britches in long time.love it
I agree 100%, though I’d like to have one of those freeze dryers, it is cost prohibitive and I refuse to add debt by using credit cards. Since I live in a tiny house it would be nice to have space-saving, freeze dried food in storage. I’m trying to prepare as much as I can, but if the grid goes down, I’ll be on my knees praying. Thanks for this lesson.
My mamaw Melton used to string up beans and make leather britches it’s been a lot of years since I have had any of those thanks for bringing back those memories for me
I have strung beans like that when I was a child Now I string the beans and put them on a clean sheet or put in box lids I take them out in the morning and bring them in after sun goes down Takes about a week then I bring them in and put them in glass jars and vacuum seal them This way you don’t have a black spot on the beans where thread is I also dehydrate in my Excalibur and they dry in 12 hours Much respect my friend God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
I did some cayenne peppers like this a few years ago for my papaw but I used fishing line. After he passed on in July we were going through stuff at his house and I noticed that a few peppers were still on the string hanging on the mantle. I took one to see if the seeds in it will come up next year. My granny would always put a jalapeño or cayenne in her boiled cabbage and chili and then complain about it being to hot. We would ask her if it’s to hot way do you do it. She always said because he likes it. They were together 63 years and actually had an article in the Kingsport times news for being married so long.
Thanks bud for making such a good video. Smart people preserve and waste not. Nothing better than good beans on a cold winters night. You're a great feller and i enjoyed it.
That is some mighty fine Appalachian Decorations you got going there Justro !! Absolutely good eating ! Making me hungry. Bet you can make a mean apple stack cake too. Mercy , your tounge will slap your brains plum out.
I remember visiting my grandmother that lived in West Virginia, and she had a back porch where the well was. It was also a place where she smoked meat, sulfured apples, and hung leather britches. I actually tried to make leather britches many years ago but it was a fail. I don’t think I had a warm enough climate to completely dry them. I talked to my aunt that is 92 years old and she said grandma used to have sheets stretched out across the tin roofs and they dried the beans on the sheets until they were good and dry.
I so appreciate you showing us so much of what you do. It is wonderful to see. I can just imagine the conversation going on when everyone was stringing beans. 😊 I love the chime of your clock, I have one also that was my granddad’s. 🕰 Thank you for another wonderful video. 🌸😊🌸
I dried a bunch of leather britches this year. They’re stored in a big gallon mason jar with a lid to keep any moisture out. Yes they are different but I have plenty in jars I pressure canned also. I actually watched TH-cam videos to pass the time when I strung mine. You should catch the last video from Miss Lori and Mr Danny at Whipperwill Holler channel. They went to visit an old mill in Arkansas. You’d probably enjoy seeing it.
OK, this was totally new to me. I have learned so much from your site. My parents were born and raised Okies during the depression... learned so much from them. For sometime I have thought there must have been a relative or close neighbor or even an in-law from the Appalachian area as too much is what I grew up with and likes in taste that you have shown, but my ancestry research shows different🤔. Are you planning on doing a follow up (recipe wise) with your leather beans? Green beans can be like Okra...out of control in NO time😀. Blessings to you and and the girls.
@@metcalfmills5679 your replies I know take your time and energy...thank you. I have all of my mother's recipes and some I'd like to forward in her handwriting to help with the always over abundance of cucumbers and okra. Is there a PO Box to send ?
I feel so left out cuz I ain’t never heard of this before, thanks again Justro fer teaching me anuther trick to store my bean harvest next year and for ever more, I can’t wait to try beans that have been dried before cooking! I’m imagining hanging them above my wood stove heater, maybe that’s where you got your Smokey flavor .
Thanks for sharing Justin. That's a wonderful free way of preservation. All I can think of is a pot of those beans your cooking, a cake of fresh cast iron skillet cornbread and some country ham! Laudy Laudy! I'm hungry now for sure!😊❤
I've live here in NC all my life and was raised mostly by my grandparents in the old ways. I have always wanted to try leather britches but didn't know how to do them. Now I'm learning...thanks for sharing Justro!
Lord I love this it brings back so many memories and good memories I would rather eat dried beans than anything sooooo good I do this every year enjoy every video of yours I’m new to your channel and I’m so happy I found you have a great day and keep canning and putting up good food and awesome videos
I really enjoyed this video Justro. I like learning ways of preserving our veg and fruits because were trying to grow more and more for ourselves. You know just what it took to grow with no chemicals! I totally agree with you about keeping healthy and staying away from doctors if you can help it. If you've got a pain, the first thing they want to do is sign you up for an operation. I like learning about nutrition because doctors are not trained in this. I hope you share more about how you grow your veg and share how you cook these leather britchy beans, I'm in the dark!
Great video! We strung beans this year for the first time. Gonna have a strand of leather britches this weekend. Can’t wait to try them. Hung them in my south facing window. Dried up real nice.
That's really great Justro I haven't seen this explained so well. Thank you I hope that it dries just right for you . Hanging it next to some bacon in a smoke house would be cool . Have a great day. We enjoyed it. Have a blessed day ❤ we love uns. Hope Virginia has a great trip back.
I would never make fun of your ways of living at all ! That’s a very practical way to dry the beans and get them ready for storage ! Brilliant idea ! Ty sir !❤️🙏🏻💕
I read about leather britches many years ago and finally decided this year to do it. When my beans first started coming in and there wasn’t yet enough to can I grabbed a needle and some quilting thread and strung them up. I look forward to cooking them this winter. And I have ordered some heirloom bean varieties to grow next year so my next leather britches will have big fat, meaty beans inside them like yours! Yours are beautiful hanging in front of the window.
I haven't made leather britches in many years! I still have a few beans in the garden and may do a few! Momma always used quilting thread to string them because it was nice and strong. Happy stringing!
Beans didn’t do well this year (my first year) They were planted in 3 sisters both with Hickory King and zucchini, the others with Sweet corn and acorn squash. Also planted some on the Hügelkultur mound with cantaloupes and cucumbers. I’ve never seen or heard of drying beans this way. When I get some beans next year, I’ll have to give this a try. Thanks and blessings Justro.
The beans look pretty hanging there Justro. I've got me some late green beans coming on,believe I'll try stringing me up some leather britches and give them a try. Thanks for sharing Friend, I like the old timey ways of doing things 🙂.
I just love to see you working & totally Enjoying what you’re doing !!! My Little Mommy, called our stringed Beans “Shuck Beans” We always saved ours for Special occasions too… Thanksgiving & Christmas. We’re only a few weeks away from Thanksgiving… This yr is just flying by… So Glad you’re feeling better. It’s good to see you Smile . Until the next One 💞
Good job, Justro! Your Mother would be so proud of you. I remember my grandma's on both sides hung theirs on the front porch of their mountain homes. Good eating, for sure! I was thinking quilting thread would be good to use, it's strong and usually cotton--natural material. Nice spending time with you again today. 🤠
That sure is Pretty. I have two pans a large one for company a small one for just us. Seeing all them beans in your silver pan. I think I would string beans from my large pan and string beans from my small pan. So I could just take the string of beans that I need to cook.
No sir - no making fun here! That is a neat way to preserve. I read about it in the Foxfire books. As always, thank you for sharing! Take care, everyone….
We strung ours on light weight twine when I was a child. When I fixed them did not really have anywhere to hang them. I placed them on screen on my closed in porch.
You brought back alot of memories for me of my Grannie, Thanks Justin. I have a recipe for dried corn that's just about as old as the hills if you'd like to have it. I haven't made these in years but they sure was good in the winter.🥰
We would cut our sweet corn off the cob and for every gallon of corn you would add 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of heavy cream in a large heavy metal pot. Cook this mixture on top of the stove until all of your liquid is absorbed into the corn. We would put the corn onto old fashioned corn dryers and cook on top of the stove until it was dry like macaroni. I doubt you could find one of those dryers now but I have put it on cookie trays and dried in the oven or the wood stove. This recipe has been in my family for about 150 to 200 years. To rehydrate the corn cook like you would macaroni and add your butter and salt and whatever you like. This is really good and we just loved it as kids.I'll send you my phone number in your email if you have any questions. It's always a pleasure to share these old timey recipes with people on I hope they give it a try.
I enjoyed watching. I knew what leather britches was but I have never tried them. I watched a video on TH-cam one day where a lady was cooking hers and they looked delicious and I was amazed how the color came back as she cooked them. My green beans didn’t do well this year, hopefully next year I will be making me some leather britches. Good demonstration Justro, I like doing things like that it’s therapeutic to my mind.
I have made them with my mom and for myself. A good survival skill for sure but I don't care for the taste of them. At my parents house we also dried pumpkin. We would cut the pumpkin in spirals then peel the edges. The strips were less than an inch wide. The loops of pumpkin were put over broomsticks and peeled poles they were hung around the edges of the porch on sunny days. On a rainy day the poles were put on the backs of two ladder back chairs, the chairs were about five feet apart with the backs facing each other. A tier of poles on the top and another level with the seats. Dried pumpkin was combined with dried apples and made into pies or stack cakes. I dried both last year, but in the dehydrator, no fly worries.
I tried that last year. I hung them in an enclosed shed and they molded. I'm going to try again this year and hang them in my cabin. I also add onions and potatoes to my beans and pork...ummm good!
Howdy Justro- y’all gonna be eatin good. We never strung beans, we always canned them. But, a piece of some kind of pig sure makes em even better. Thank you for sharing this. Take care and God’s blessings to y’all
Really liked your video bud. My grandma used to hang b her beans on the porch in Wva almost heaven when i was a young. No telling how many weevils we ate not knowing but them beans were dang good.
I wish I had been there to help you string them, twice lol It’s so much fun! I helped an older couple do it one year. I had never heard of doing it before then. I still have never eaten any. But now I wanna try them😊
Well how about that! I’ve been doing this the last couple of weeks! Saw it on TH-cam and wanted to try it! You show a great way to do the stringing thanks! Looking forward to tryin it later. You sure do have an interesting channel! Thanks
I have Never seen one soul fix leather britches or use crocks to pickle things in down here in Central Louisiana. I think it must have something to do with bugs or humidity. When I say bugs I mean mosquitoes 14:10 all types of flies and if beans were hanging or crocks were open there was a problem it is So hot down here and doors and windows were left open in Grandma’s day She did lots of canning with jars No freezer canning for her I watched how you did it cause it may come down to drying food and now I know how it’s done the Shellie’s looked so good you showed Grandma used to only have a few of those to mix with the green snapped beans They were so good 🫘
I don't have a good environment to dry anything; there's a high level of moisture in the air in my area. I thought, though, that a folding wooden clothes drying rack would make a good bean hanger (or for anything else you wanted to hang to dry). The modern one's are smaller; I have an old one that's quite large. Anywho, I dried a bunch of whole green beans in my dehydrator. I wonder if they'll taste the same as slow dryed?
You are right about having them on the holidays only time we had them was at Christmastime and my grandmother did them because at that time we lived in Ohio she lived in West Virginia and in Ohio they didn't grow white half runners they are the best in my book but now I'm in Kentucky
Grew up on these beans but ain't seen my family string these beans ever in Kentucky and Tennessee. But, I love it! And gonna do it! I just wanna know how long do I keep them up to dry??? And do un's cook 'em as usual...water, streaked meat, etc? Love the old ways ❤️🥰
Last year I made leather britches and I used a big coat button for my bottom holder. I so enjoyed shelling them when they were dried. I seed saved about a cup of dried beans shared them with my sisters. My beans looked like small Northern beans and I cooked them with a smoked hamhock. What brand of beans are those Justro.
@metcalfmills5679 Wow, have they been handed down over the years? I need to find a similar bean where I live, are these climbing beans or green beans that are called Bush beans? I love trying to grow all kinds of beans and really want to try this.
@marymcandrew7667 They are Italian green beans that climb. No, they weren't handed down but purchased in a seed packet. I have plenty to share if you would like me to send you some.
@marymcandrew7667 Another bean I discovered is the Royal Purple bush bean this year. There are no strings when snapping them, tender when cooking, and once cooked, they are green! I did not seed save these, but I will be looking for them come spring.
I have seen a German woodcut image of this method, which I suspect was brought to Appalachia by the pioneering Germans who emigrated from the Palatine region. However, I think they strung semi-dry Shelly beans, as a way to deal with not having preserving or storage containers, and hung them in the special attics ( which both my grandparents had) ...as you mentioned ... but I think they did not use the pods. The amount of time and fuel it takes to cook a dry pod tender does not jibe with the way they keep house. Sometimes techniques or methods get misunderstood from generation to generation.
After they are completely dry is it required to put in freezer for preservation or is there any other way. I see in comments below they vacuum seal in glass jars after drying. so interesting, thank you.
Howdy, I always put them in a freezer bag in the freezer. I guess a sealed jar is ok if it is vacuum sealed. I just want to make sure mine are safe. Thank you
Supposed to be some variety of greasys that came from Virginia in the 30’s. They don’t look like greasys to me though but they are some wonderful growing beans
Hay thank for the info string beans for lather beans j love my ant did it grandmother didn't your on the money on somke taste from steve c from state Oregon
Hey Justro. Young kids at our family reunion one year made fun of my pot of baked beans and turned their noses up at the idea of trying some. All us older folks just laughed and said it was more for us. We’ve been growing Jacob Cattle Beans since we arrived from the old country. I guess the tradition is going to die out with this spoiled younger generation. So sad😔🤔🥴
I'm from NY but now live in Scotland and I was able to try growing Jacob's Cattle beans last year! I bought them from a seed company here that carries heritage seeds. My garden soil isn't great yet as it's new, but I don't think they grew as vigorous as I'd have liked. Maybe I did something wrong?
Hey Justro! I found a video you will surely enjoy. I'm going to come watch this video of yours when I finish watching theirs. While I was watching, I thought of you and knew you'd probably enjoy it. Go check out Whippoorwill Hollar's latest video here on youtube. They went to War Eagle Mill in Arkansas over the holiday last weekend. It's really cool! Be back shortly.
@@metcalfmills5679 I just finished the stringin.😁 That is so cool. I never knew this. I know you're gonna think I'm crazy but, we don't eat a lot of green beans. Me nor the hubby likes them. Neither did our kids. I grow some for a friend of mine. I will eat some fresh ...steamed, with some bacon grease drizzled on'em, salt, pepper and garlic. Now I can eat them like that fresh picked. But, I am not one of those green bean casserole fans at Thanksgiving. LOL 😁I loved the way they hung up there. It did look like a decoration of sorts.
My grandmother before she passed away told me when they were little girls their mother and father would take the meat and slice it thin and take salt and put it all over the roof of the house that can be reached with a ladder they lay the meat on top of that salt in the summertime and then they'd cover that meat with salt and as the flies would land on it they pick the flies off the salt everyday and they cure their meat out like that because they didn't have a smokehouse and that's how they cured salt cure their meat. And I think back in them days she told me that it was tin roof houses and she says everybody back in them days that didn't have a smoke house that's how they cured their meat or salt cured their meat
Hubby said tie them on the ceiling fan blades and turn on low. 😆 LOL
Well that could get wild! 😆
We didn't have a deep freeze so Mom dryed hers put them in a sack leaving them on a string put red pepper in them to keep bugs out. We called them shuck beans. So good.
Thank you for sharing this with us ❤️
My momma use to do that here in Kentucky years ago,have a nice day
Thank you. You too Russell
Justro I have strung so many beans when I was at home it probably would be miles long. Daddy would buy heavy quilting thread and large needles to usefor stringing. All five girls would help Mom string themup while daddy kept stringing beans daddy would hang them on porch to dry and then stored them in brown paper bags for winter
Thank you for sharing this with us! I love hearing about things like this. ❤️
I HAVE LEATHER BRITCHES HANGING IN MY KITCHEN NOW♥️
Oh thank you for telling us!!!❤️
I remember mama stringing beans shw used match sticks as a stopper when I was a smart alec teenager I went to this girls home and her mother was snapping beans and pulling the strings from them and she called it stringing beans me being the smart one I showed her how to string them properly and they had a good laugh at me saying why in the world would anyone go to that much trouble come to find out they came from the city , you can guess what they nick named me !
Ha ha! Thank you for sharing this with us 😆
Looking good ,I'll be over for supper LOL
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im looking forward to seeing how long you cook them and the consistency etc .
nice decorating touch! 🤠
i read somewhere about a lady who had an old car in her yard. i think it was her husbands and he passed away and she couldn't get rid of it.
she always dries apples and got to thinking about that car just sitting there not being used because she couldn't drive. she always layed her apples out on screens to dry. she took them and put inside that car and the heat and sun dries them in no time. she said only thing was the car always smelled like apples to this day.
I will do that. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us ❤️
I use our car lots of times, to dry herbs, it gets really hot in there! Very wet and rainy lots of times at the end of summer where we live, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.
Well, I never thought I’d get to see from the perspective of a bean being strung upside down.😂 I love it. Love the decor too. I knew about leather britches when I was a teen because my parents always loved the old ways, antique stores, etc including things they had never done. My mom and I picked up a little mountain ways cookbook back then and we were intrigued with how they dried beans and I still have it. Thanks for all these details. The devil is in the details so will help keep me from making too many mistakes. (Amen, amen, amen to what you said about keeping your health and away from certain places if you can help it. I fully understand what you’re talking about.)💚👏
Hope it helps. Thank you for sharing this with us Deborah.
Boy that was a great video on “leather britches “. In these days we are going need every kind of food preservation there is. Thanks and God Bless
It is good to know how, thanks folks
I wish I had neighbors like you and Tipper so I could conveniently appear at supper time so I might get an invite to share a tasty meal with some real down home folk!
Aww thank you 🙂
Hey! I really liked this video a lot! Very smart way of doing some extra putting up! THANK YOU very kindly.
Glad that you enjoyed it, I hope that it helps
I love it when you share the old ways of taking care of vegetables.
Thank you, glad I can share
That is beautiful….keep showing us all you know…my favorite channel…💚
Thank you Beverly
I remember my great grandmother making and cooking leatherbritches. They are delicious. Thank you for showing how to do this.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for sharing
I know what they are lol-I was raised with my grandmother telling me stories about how they did things.I haven't heard that word leather britches in long time.love it
Thank you ❤️
Good to know we don't need one of those $3000 dehydrators to preserve food. This is really cool. Thanks Justro.
There are other ways for sure! Hope it helps
I agree 100%, though I’d like to have one of those freeze dryers, it is cost prohibitive and I refuse to add debt by using credit cards. Since I live in a tiny house it would be nice to have space-saving, freeze dried food in storage. I’m trying to prepare as much as I can, but if the grid goes down, I’ll be on my knees praying. Thanks for this lesson.
My mamaw Melton used to string up beans and make leather britches it’s been a lot of years since I have had any of those thanks for bringing back those memories for me
Thank you for sharing this with us
I have strung beans like that when I was a child
Now I string the beans and put them on a clean sheet or put in box lids
I take them out in the morning and bring them in after sun goes down
Takes about a week then I bring them in and put them in glass jars and vacuum seal them
This way you don’t have a black spot on the beans where thread is
I also dehydrate in my Excalibur and they dry in 12 hours
Much respect my friend
God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing this with us! I appreciate it
That is so cool.
You have the patience of Jobe. 😊
Thanks for sharing this. I've never seen it before.
I did some cayenne peppers like this a few years ago for my papaw but I used fishing line. After he passed on in July we were going through stuff at his house and I noticed that a few peppers were still on the string hanging on the mantle. I took one to see if the seeds in it will come up next year. My granny would always put a jalapeño or cayenne in her boiled cabbage and chili and then complain about it being to hot. We would ask her if it’s to hot way do you do it. She always said because he likes it. They were together 63 years and actually had an article in the Kingsport times news for being married so long.
Aw thank you so much for sharing this sweet & spicy story with us. ❤️
That’s the best way to decorate at Christmas! I miss seeing that!
Yes❤️
Thanks bud for making such a good video. Smart people preserve and waste not. Nothing better than good beans on a cold winters night. You're a great feller and i enjoyed it.
That is some mighty fine Appalachian Decorations you got going there Justro !! Absolutely good eating ! Making me hungry. Bet you can make a mean apple stack cake too. Mercy , your tounge will slap your brains plum out.
Thank you! I have not tried that one. 😆
Just love your videos. Brings back memories.
Thank you Rhonda
Great Video! I love me some “Shuck beans”🥰
Ohhh yeah ❤️
I remember visiting my grandmother that lived in West Virginia, and she had a back porch where the well was. It was also a place where she smoked meat, sulfured apples, and hung leather britches. I actually tried to make leather britches many years ago but it was a fail. I don’t think I had a warm enough climate to completely dry them. I talked to my aunt that is 92 years old and she said grandma used to have sheets stretched out across the tin roofs and they dried the beans on the sheets until they were good and dry.
Very interesting!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I always appreciate when y’all share things that we all can learn from! 🙂
I so appreciate you showing us so much of what you do. It is wonderful to see. I can just imagine the conversation going on when everyone was stringing beans. 😊
I love the chime of your clock, I have one also that was my granddad’s. 🕰
Thank you for another wonderful video.
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Aw thank you for this. It’s the real things that hold us together ❤️
I dried a bunch of leather britches this year. They’re stored in a big gallon mason jar with a lid to keep any moisture out. Yes they are different but I have plenty in jars I pressure canned also. I actually watched TH-cam videos to pass the time when I strung mine. You should catch the last video from Miss Lori and Mr Danny at Whipperwill Holler channel. They went to visit an old mill in Arkansas. You’d probably enjoy seeing it.
Somebody else just mentioned that! Thank you so much! I appreciate you for thinking of me. And thank you for sharing
@@metcalfmills5679 you are most welcome. I think you’ll like them. Good home folks.
@@apiecemaker1163 thank you
Love Justro. You keep up the traditions of Appalachia living my brother. Love the videos.
Nashville TN
Thanks brother!! I appreciate you
OK, this was totally new to me. I have learned so much from your site. My parents were born and raised Okies during the depression... learned so much from them. For sometime I have thought there must have been a relative or close neighbor or even an in-law from the Appalachian area as too much is what I grew up with and likes in taste that you have shown, but my ancestry research shows different🤔. Are you planning on doing a follow up (recipe wise) with your leather beans? Green beans can be like Okra...out of control in NO time😀. Blessings to you and and the girls.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Yes we will cook them later. Bless you as well, thank you
@@metcalfmills5679 your replies I know take your time and energy...thank you. I have all of my mother's recipes and some I'd like to forward in her handwriting to help with the always over abundance of cucumbers and okra. Is there a PO Box to send ?
I feel so left out cuz I ain’t never heard of this before, thanks again Justro fer teaching me anuther trick to store my bean harvest next year and for ever more, I can’t wait to try beans that have been dried before cooking! I’m imagining hanging them above my wood stove heater, maybe that’s where you got your Smokey flavor .
Let us know how it goes!!
Thanks for sharing Justin. That's a wonderful free way of preservation. All I can think of is a pot of those beans your cooking, a cake of fresh cast iron skillet cornbread and some country ham! Laudy Laudy! I'm hungry now for sure!😊❤
That is some good thoughtcher thank Sonya. That’ll make you hungry when you ain’t hungry!🙂❤️
This is great! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks folks, glad you enjoyed
I've live here in NC all my life and was raised mostly by my grandparents in the old ways. I have always wanted to try leather britches but didn't know how to do them. Now I'm learning...thanks for sharing Justro!
Hanging beans is new to me Justin. Seems like we should have thought of it already but we didn't. Thanks for teaching us!
Thanks Nelse
I just loved this idea!!
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Definitely a mtn thing..i grew up with gram doin this but here at the beach they would mold up quick..thx
Oh the beach Hey!! Thanks LR
Lord I love this it brings back so many memories and good memories I would rather eat dried beans than anything sooooo good I do this every year enjoy every video of yours I’m new to your channel and I’m so happy I found you have a great day and keep canning and putting up good food and awesome videos
I really enjoyed this video Justro. I like learning ways of preserving our veg and fruits because were trying to grow more and more for ourselves. You know just what it took to grow with no chemicals! I totally agree with you about keeping healthy and staying away from doctors if you can help it. If you've got a pain, the first thing they want to do is sign you up for an operation. I like learning about nutrition because doctors are not trained in this.
I hope you share more about how you grow your veg and share how you cook these leather britchy beans, I'm in the dark!
Yum, yum Justro!!
Yep! 😆
Great video! We strung beans this year for the first time. Gonna have a strand of leather britches this weekend. Can’t wait to try them. Hung them in my south facing window. Dried up real nice.
Thank you for sharing this with us
That's really great Justro I haven't seen this explained so well. Thank you I hope that it dries just right for you . Hanging it next to some bacon in a smoke house would be cool . Have a great day. We enjoyed it. Have a blessed day ❤ we love uns. Hope Virginia has a great trip back.
Thank you, yes it sure would! We love uns too. Hope that you all do as well❤️
I would never make fun of your ways of living at all ! That’s a very practical way to dry the beans and get them ready for storage ! Brilliant idea ! Ty sir !❤️🙏🏻💕
Thank you! Glad you enjoy!❤️🙏🏻
I read about leather britches many years ago and finally decided this year to do it. When my beans first started coming in and there wasn’t yet enough to can I grabbed a needle and some quilting thread and strung them up. I look forward to cooking them this winter. And I have ordered some heirloom bean varieties to grow next year so my next leather britches will have big fat, meaty beans inside them like yours! Yours are beautiful hanging in front of the window.
Thank you for sharing this with us. That’s great!
Fishing line would work good too I believe. Nice and strong.
Yes it would. I think I would rather have cotton though. Thank you for sharing!
I haven't made leather britches in many years! I still have a few beans in the garden and may do a few! Momma always used quilting thread to string them because it was nice and strong. Happy stringing!
Thank you for sharing this! Hope you get you some
I did this with cayenne peppers today to dry them. I picked up some tips like with the twig on the bottom. Thanks for another video!
Thanks Nate, I’m glad it helped
Thanks Nate, I’m glad it helped
Beans didn’t do well this year (my first year) They were planted in 3 sisters both with Hickory King and zucchini, the others with Sweet corn and acorn squash. Also planted some on the Hügelkultur mound with cantaloupes and cucumbers.
I’ve never seen or heard of drying beans this way. When I get some beans next year, I’ll have to give this a try. Thanks and blessings Justro.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed. Blessings to you too
The beans look pretty hanging there Justro. I've got me some late green beans coming on,believe I'll try stringing me up some leather britches and give them a try. Thanks for sharing Friend, I like the old timey ways of doing things 🙂.
That is for sure Donald. Thank you my friend
I just love to see you working & totally Enjoying what you’re doing !!! My Little Mommy, called our stringed Beans “Shuck Beans”
We always saved ours for Special occasions too…
Thanksgiving & Christmas.
We’re only a few weeks away from Thanksgiving… This yr is just flying by… So Glad you’re feeling better. It’s good to see you Smile .
Until the next One 💞
Thank you for sharing this with us Brenda.
Yes shuck beans is another name that I am familiar with. Where did summer go?
Thank you so much🙂
Thank you for sharing with us as always! Good knowledge you share on here that people need to know!
Thank you for your support!!
@@metcalfmills5679 You're welcome! I don't subscribe to many channels at all but yours is awesome and I tell my friends and family to check out yours!
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I want to stay a long ways from any doctors. That's for sure. I agree with ya, Justro.
For sure!
Good job, Justro! Your Mother would be so proud of you. I remember my grandma's on both sides hung theirs on the front porch of their mountain homes. Good eating, for sure! I was thinking quilting thread would be good to use, it's strong and usually cotton--natural material. Nice spending time with you again today. 🤠
Aww Thank you Mrs. Linda. I always appreciate your kind words. Thank you for sharing those important moments with us. I always enjoy sharing with you
That sure is Pretty. I have two pans a large one for company a small one for just us. Seeing all them beans in your silver pan. I think I would string beans from my large pan and string beans from my small pan. So I could just take the string of beans that I need to cook.
No sir - no making fun here! That is a neat way to preserve. I read about it in the Foxfire books. As always, thank you for sharing! Take care, everyone….
Thank you for sharing Stacey. You too!
We strung ours on light weight twine when I was a child. When I fixed them did not really have anywhere to hang them. I placed them on screen on my closed in porch.
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You brought back alot of memories for me of my Grannie, Thanks Justin. I have a recipe for dried corn that's just about as old as the hills if you'd like to have it. I haven't made these in years but they sure was good in the winter.🥰
I sure would like to hear about it! Thank you❤️
We would cut our sweet corn off the cob and for every gallon of corn you would add 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of heavy cream in a large heavy metal pot. Cook this mixture on top of the stove until all of your liquid is absorbed into the corn. We would put the corn onto old fashioned corn dryers and cook on top of the stove until it was dry like macaroni. I doubt you could find one of those dryers now but I have put it on cookie trays and dried in the oven or the wood stove. This recipe has been in my family for about 150 to 200 years. To rehydrate the corn cook like you would macaroni and add your butter and salt and whatever you like. This is really good and we just loved it as kids.I'll send you my phone number in your email if you have any questions. It's always a pleasure to share these old timey recipes with people on I hope they give it a try.
Be sure and put the pot on low heat
The old traditional ways are better. Nice looking beans . Thanks for Sharing , I have a String of peppers drying in our house .
That’s great, thank you for sharing Ricky
I enjoyed watching. I knew what leather britches was but I have never tried them. I watched a video on TH-cam one day where a lady was cooking hers and they looked delicious and I was amazed how the color came back as she cooked them. My green beans didn’t do well this year, hopefully next year I will be making me some leather britches. Good demonstration Justro, I like doing things like that it’s therapeutic to my mind.
Thank you for sharing this with us Sheila. I hope they do good for you next year. It sure is special and peaceful ❤️
I have done peppers this way but never thought about doing beans. Thanks 🙏 they even look cute 😊
Thanks Deborah 🙂
I have made them with my mom and for myself. A good survival skill for sure but I don't care for the taste of them. At my parents house we also dried pumpkin. We would cut the pumpkin in spirals then peel the edges. The strips were less than an inch wide. The loops of pumpkin were put over broomsticks and peeled poles they were hung around the edges of the porch on sunny days. On a rainy day the poles were put on the backs of two ladder back chairs, the chairs were about five feet apart with the backs facing each other. A tier of poles on the top and another level with the seats. Dried pumpkin was combined with dried apples and made into pies or stack cakes. I dried both last year, but in the dehydrator, no fly worries.
Thank you for sharing this with us! I want to try that next!❤️
Hello, do you mean you'd cut a rings of pumpkin and work your way down? So you have big rings? I'm not sure I understand but would like to try it!
I tried that last year. I hung them in an enclosed shed and they molded. I'm going to try again this year and hang them in my cabin.
I also add onions and potatoes to my beans and pork...ummm good!
You will do better where the air can stir..
Howdy Justro- y’all gonna be eatin good. We never strung beans, we always canned them. But, a piece of some kind of pig sure makes em even better. Thank you for sharing this. Take care and God’s blessings to y’all
Howdy brother, we sure have. A piece of pig does wonders for anything. God bless you too my friend
Really liked your video bud. My grandma used to hang b her beans on the porch in Wva almost heaven when i was a young. No telling how many weevils we ate not knowing but them beans were dang good.
I wish I had been there to help you string them, twice lol It’s so much fun! I helped an older couple do it one year. I had never heard of doing it before then. I still have never eaten any. But now I wanna try them😊
Aw thanks Lisa. You need to try them sometime, it is fun
@@metcalfmills5679 I will probably be running to the garden to pick beans at daylight 😂
@@lisamcfall1210 hope it went good😆
You make it look so easy. I was going to do that with my beans a couple days ago but I think I waited too long.
I hate to hear that Carol
Well how about that! I’ve been doing this the last couple of weeks! Saw it on TH-cam and wanted to try it! You show a great way to do the stringing thanks! Looking forward to tryin it later. You sure do have an interesting channel! Thanks
Thank you Roy. Thank you for sharing this with us, and glad you enjoy.
I have Never seen one soul fix leather britches
or use crocks to pickle things in down here in Central Louisiana. I think it must have something to do with bugs or humidity. When I say bugs I mean mosquitoes 14:10 all types of flies and if beans were hanging or crocks were open there was a problem it is So hot down here and doors and windows were left open in Grandma’s day She did lots of canning with jars No freezer canning for her I watched how you did it cause it may come down to drying food and now I know how it’s done the Shellie’s looked so good you showed Grandma used to only have a few of those to mix with the green snapped beans They were so good 🫘
Thank you for sharing this with us! I understand. Hope it helps!
I don't have a good environment to dry anything; there's a high level of moisture in the air in my area. I thought, though, that a folding wooden clothes drying rack would make a good bean hanger (or for anything else you wanted to hang to dry). The modern one's are smaller; I have an old one that's quite large. Anywho, I dried a bunch of whole green beans in my dehydrator. I wonder if they'll taste the same as slow dryed?
I understand. Some places are just not good for drying. Sounds like that would work good! I have heard that they will not have the same flavor.
I love me some "leather britches".
Ohhh yes!!
Great idea. I used to string popcorn wreath for Christmas 🎄. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝
Thank you for sharing Nancy 🙂
I would love to decorate my house appalacian style. 🙂 Unfortunately, I didn't get to grow beans this year.
Maybe next year Kelly!
“Leather britches” or “shuck beans” is what my mother would say
Thank you
You are right about having them on the holidays only time we had them was at Christmastime and my grandmother did them because at that time we lived in Ohio she lived in West Virginia and in Ohio they didn't grow white half runners they are the best in my book but now I'm in Kentucky
Thank you for sharing this with us! And thank you for watching
Grew up on these beans but ain't seen my family string these beans ever in Kentucky and Tennessee. But, I love it! And gonna do it! I just wanna know how long do I keep them up to dry??? And do un's cook 'em as usual...water, streaked meat, etc? Love the old ways ❤️🥰
After good and dry, I put mine in freezer.
Yes, thank you
Last year I made leather britches and I used a big coat button for my bottom holder. I so enjoyed shelling them when they were dried. I seed saved about a cup of dried beans shared them with my sisters. My beans looked like small Northern beans and I cooked them with a smoked hamhock.
What brand of beans are those Justro.
Supposed to be greasys that came from Virginia back in the 30’s. Thank you for sharing this with us
@metcalfmills5679 Wow, have they been handed down over the years? I need to find a similar bean where I live, are these climbing beans or green beans that are called Bush beans? I love trying to grow all kinds of beans and really want to try this.
@marymcandrew7667 They are Italian green beans that climb. No, they weren't handed down but purchased in a seed packet. I have plenty to share if you would like me to send you some.
@marymcandrew7667 Another bean I discovered is the Royal Purple bush bean this year. There are no strings when snapping them, tender when cooking, and once cooked, they are green! I did not seed save these, but I will be looking for them come spring.
Ive always wondered how leather britches were made!
Hope it helps!
I have seen a German woodcut image of this method, which I suspect was brought to Appalachia by the pioneering Germans who emigrated from the Palatine region.
However, I think they strung semi-dry Shelly beans, as a way to deal with not having preserving or storage containers, and hung them in the special attics ( which both my grandparents had) ...as you mentioned ... but I think they did not use the pods. The amount of time and fuel it takes to cook a dry pod tender does not jibe with the way they keep house.
Sometimes techniques or methods get misunderstood from generation to generation.
Thank you for sharing
How's the mills stones coming along, such as the backlog of them, like Danny and Wanda's?
I just put up an update video
We used to hang cayenne peppers like that. That’s a big mess of beans for one person at one time
Thank you for sharing Daniel. It didn’t take too long
Leather britches?
Is that like lederhosen?
I can’t know
After they are completely dry is it required to put in freezer for preservation or is there any other way. I see in comments below they vacuum seal in glass jars after drying. so interesting, thank you.
Howdy, I always put them in a freezer bag in the freezer. I guess a sealed jar is ok if it is vacuum sealed. I just want to make sure mine are safe. Thank you
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Do you know what variety of green beans those are?
Supposed to be some variety of greasys that came from Virginia in the 30’s. They don’t look like greasys to me though but they are some wonderful growing beans
@@metcalfmills5679I collect different bean seeds and would love to buy some of these seeds from you.
Hay thank for the info string beans for lather beans j love my ant did it grandmother didn't your on the money on somke taste from steve c from state Oregon
Thank you for sharing this with us Steve!!
Hey Justro. Young kids at our family reunion one year made fun of my pot of baked beans and turned their noses up at the idea of trying some. All us older folks just laughed and said it was more for us. We’ve been growing Jacob Cattle Beans since we arrived from the old country. I guess the tradition is going to die out with this spoiled younger generation. So sad😔🤔🥴
Oh that’s too bad. Maybe not! We have to try. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I'm from NY but now live in Scotland and I was able to try growing Jacob's Cattle beans last year! I bought them from a seed company here that carries heritage seeds. My garden soil isn't great yet as it's new, but I don't think they grew as vigorous as I'd have liked. Maybe I did something wrong?
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@@metcalfmills5679 I just finished the stringin.😁 That is so cool. I never knew this. I know you're gonna think I'm crazy but, we don't eat a lot of green beans. Me nor the hubby likes them. Neither did our kids. I grow some for a friend of mine. I will eat some fresh ...steamed, with some bacon grease drizzled on'em, salt, pepper and garlic. Now I can eat them like that fresh picked. But, I am not one of those green bean casserole fans at Thanksgiving. LOL 😁I loved the way they hung up there. It did look like a decoration of sorts.
@@theIAMofME I would not eat a casserole. You need to try the old way of cooking them. Thank you
@@metcalfmills5679 you might be right!!
Dried turkey was turkey jerky, I guess.
Sounds right.. 😆
My grandmother before she passed away told me when they were little girls their mother and father would take the meat and slice it thin and take salt and put it all over the roof of the house that can be reached with a ladder they lay the meat on top of that salt in the summertime and then they'd cover that meat with salt and as the flies would land on it they pick the flies off the salt everyday and they cure their meat out like that because they didn't have a smokehouse and that's how they cured salt cure their meat. And I think back in them days she told me that it was tin roof houses and she says everybody back in them days that didn't have a smoke house that's how they cured their meat or salt cured their meat
Thank you for sharing this with us! Very interesting
Shuck beans.
Yes!
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Hey!!
It’s a good idea not to can all your green beans.
Yes! 🙂