Cooking Fresh Green Beans Like Granny - in Appalachia
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- Watch this video to learn the traditional way to cook green beans in Appalachia and throughout much of the south.
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seems there is alot o variations love green baen though
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I grew up eating things like that. ham or bacon in it so good. Little salt and pepper.. My grandmother came from missouri. And this is how My mother fixed them.
Stringing bean! Laaaw memories. A sittin' on the porch with a old towel spread on my lap and my old Hickory paring knife. Everybody would get a few handfuls of beans and put them in your lap on the towel and start stringing. We used an enameled bath canner pot to toss the broken pieces in. When you would get down to a pile of strings in your lap, you'd run your fingers through one last time to make sure ya didn't miss a bean, then empty your strings out (we used and old bushel basket for garden scraps) get you some more beans and string some more. The more people the merrier the job! If I was by my self, I liked to sing old hymns. All the cats and dogs would come and sit in the porch with me, I'm not sure if it was the fellowship or they were worried about me. I can't carry a tune even if I had a coal bucket with a handle on it!
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With the shelly beans, lotsa ham chunks, new red "Arsh" taters in the pot, a mess of cukes and onions, sliced tomatoes and cottage cheese, a pan of cornbread and some iced tea: What else is there for a meal? My wife made the first peach pie of the season and we had it with supper tonight. Fresh garden goodies are the best part of summer.
Sounds great and I'm hungry! When's dinner:)♥️♥️♥️
So glad to see that I’m not the only one that still cooks her beans to death. lol that’s the only way I’ll eat green beans. I hate the crunchy, bright green ones.
Down east, Wayne County NC we cook string beans the same way that you do. I like to season them with a chunk of ham hock. Never add salt until the the ham has had time to cook down and leave its salt behind, or else you're liable to get them too salty. I always cook enough to last three or four days and put the pot of left over beans in the refrigerator for the next day, when I reheat them for the next meal. To me they get better with each passing day. I rarely cook a meal without including a mess of string beans or as we often call them, "snap beans." Almost everyone in this area grows Blue Lake variety beans. Where might I find the varieties you grow?
what time is dinner?
Ready to come to you house for supper. Yum! Good old home cooking theres nothing like it!!
Thank you Mrs. Tipper, we as a nation are loosing these traditions, you and your family are a true BLESSING
This is the way my mother cooked our beans, but she cooked the water completely out. I live on Sand Mountain, in Alabama, the Appalachian foothills. Love your videos.
Same here, my grandma did it that way too. So good! I still make them like that sometimes.
When Daddy's garden came in good in summer I guess we had a big pot of green beans at least once a week. Mama cooked em to death with bacon, a little onion and maybe a garlic clove or two. Often she'd throw in some small red potatoes that she would mash with butter at serving along with a plate of sliced tomatoes and cucumbers and a side of cornbread! My fondest memories of family growing up seem to revolve around food! lol
I think we all have those memories of food 🙂 Thanks for watching!
Green bean and new potatoes! Delicious..!
Wonderful. Truly wonderful.
You making me hungry, guess what's for dinner tomorrow 😋
My grandmother cooked them with bacon and it was so good! I think those green beans were more flat, like Italian green beans.
Some of my fondest childhood memories is sitting on the front porch of my TN grandmother stringing and snapping beans. I'm lucky enough to have her bean pan.
You are so my momma! I can hardly believe I get to relive so many memories with you. Since watching your videos, I have brought cornbread (and buttermilk) back into my diet, plus other long forgotten dining goodies. May the LORD prosper you with good health, long life, happiness, and abundance.
Within 24 hours of this video I went out and bought a bag of green beans. I prepared them exactly as you described--granny style--adding just bacon. I already had cracklin cornbread in the refrigerator, so I had some cornbread and green beans for lunch. This meal was delicious--Appalachian style! Plus, I now have enough for another meal or two with no prep time involved. I love all your videos, but maybe the cooking ones are the best for me. Thanks for making them.
I couldn’t agree more, Tipper brings a comfort to my life through her videos. I pray God blesses her physically, mentally, & financially in Jesus’ Holy name.
Same here Kenneth. Watching her is just like watching my Mama and my Grandma cook. It takes me back to my happy childhood, I was very blessed to have an intact family with lots of happy loving Aunts and Uncles and cousins. One Aunt lived in Sherwood TN at the bottom of Sewanee mountain. She lived in a pre-civil war dog trot log house.. Lordy I loved to "go to Aunt Dixie's". They never let us off her porch without adults because they had timber rattlesnakes all over the place. When Aunt Dixie and Uncle John went to the garden, orchard, cellar, barn ... wherever, they had to be constantly alert for rattlers. We'd sit on her porch steps and watch for the train to pass. The tracks were across the 2 lane highway, across large pasture, then against the woods. I can still see and hear that train rolling and whistling along. Such good memories 💗
Amen!
We still cook our green beans with fatback. My Momma has been gone 17 years now but I still think she cooked them the best! My wife is a great cook and my Momma taught her how to cook. Just hope our children will remember how when we are gone.
We had a big mess of green beans with ham for seasoning. My mom brought a big pot of them to our daughter Hannah's birthday dinner. We baked a small hen turkey, roasted fresh asparagus, boiled some corn on the cob, and started with a big tossed salad. Mom also supplied the birthday cake; chocolate (Hannah's favorite). Tomorrow calls for cornbread to go with the leftover green beans.
That's sounds like a real feast Brad 🙂
I just ate about an hour ago and after reading your post, I’m hungry again! 🤠
Now that's my kind of banquet!
My friend in Virginia just tried Rattlesnake beans this year in her garden and swears by them. Huge, bountiful crop despite the hot weather and torrential rains.
@@maryjowohlgemuth5652 celebrating appalachia !!!
I never liked soft or long cooked green beans or any other vegetables. My mother loved them that way.
I like green beans blanched then sautéed. Many years ago we hosted a holiday dinner and I made my regular green beans. Blanch then shock them in cold water. Next, I sauté onion, peppers and garlic in butter and olive oil with salt and pepper to taste. Then I add in the broken blanched green beans and sauté with apple cider and applejack whiskey.
I served my regular green beans to my uncle who said he hated green beans. He absolutely loved mine! He said your grandmother would boil canned green beans until they were mush. He said the green beans you make aren’t mush!
I doubt you cook your canned green beans as long as you do your fresh green beans but I prefer less cook on mine. I absolutely love you and your family sharing your lives and ways! It helps me recognize my food ways and heritage. Thank you for sharing with us💚 Washington State resident🌟
We cook them really done, too. I fry down bacon, take it out, leaving the grease. Then, I cut up a slew(lots, for the sweetness it lends) of onions, sweat them in the grease, put the beans in, no water as they make a pot liquor. Cover them and cook them on a very, very low flame. They come out sweet and super soft.
This brings back so many happy memories! God bless you!
I always say that I like my green beans cooked till they are cooked to death. Makes a tasty dish.
🙂 That's a good way to put it!
This brought back fond memories of helping mama & daddy pick beans from the garden. My oldest sister, who was 17 when I was born, would help too. We'd end up with at least a bushel basket to string & snap! We'd all sit on the front porch & laugh & talk while we worked, so it didn't really seem like work! Mama would save a mess for supper, but the rest was prepared for canning. She would rinse them just like you do, then add ham hock or fat back! Every now & then she'd use bacon & sometimes she'd add some new taters to the pot. She always cooked em til they were soft...can't stand a crunchy bean! She did pinto beans the same way, cooking with fat back. Her's were always so good & I hate to say I was never able to fix pintos like mama. Oh, such good memories y'all keep bringing up for me! Many blessings to y'all from VA!
Pole beans with onion and ham hock down here in Bloody Harlan, Kentucky tonight! Love your videos because our kinda cookin' will do you proud every time.
Sounds like good eating 🙂 So glad you enjoy our videos!
Don’t forget the taters! 🤤
Makes one feel like going back home.
Hey, today at church in Ages KY we had the best dinner with green beans, cornbread, chicken and dumplings. Pastor and Sister appreciation day. Just down the road a piece....
My mom is from Harlan, Ky
My Grandma had a big garden in her backyard. She only grew strawberries and green beans. My mother and her 3 sisters would help Grandma can her green beans. Fun memories. My cousins and I played under the table while they worked.
Just watching you string those beans was so relaxing. It brought back fond memories of my childhood. Thank you for sharing this video.❤
Your so welcome Karen 🙂
I spent many years sitting with my grandmother ‘ma’ breaking beans while watching soap operas. I’m talking bushels of ‘em. Enough to can and feed the entire holler of neighbors/friends.
From Alabama and that is the way we cooked them while I was growing up and I still perfer them that way to this day. So good. Nothing like fresh from the garden green beans with corn bread. Yum.
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I didn’t grow up eating beans like this but I love them whenever I can get my hands on them! Looking forward to just making them myself now.
I love the sound of snapping beans...once I was laid out on Granny's couch sick running a fever and the repetitious sound of them snapping the beans lulled me to sleep and when they woke me up supper was ready to sit down too.
I used to sit on the front porch with (Grand) Ma and others (mostly women - I was young and got left of things sometimes). Ma and the the others would sit in their rocking chairs and talk about things while breaking/stringing beans. I also helped my mom at home with beans and other cooking as well. I can smell and taste them beans (with a ham hock) as I type.
I cooked my green beans.the same way like your..also I season mine
with chicken bouillon .little vinegar
Bacon grease..delicious
Recently, going through all the cards my mother kept, I came across a thinking of you card she had gotten back from her mother after Grandma had passed on. She had written to Grandma saying "...I've been busy freezing peas, and 'shelly' beans...". I had forgotten about that term 'shelly beans' until hearing you speak of them in another video(s) and then I found this note she had written to her mother. That was neat to read and remember something that I had forgotten Mama/family speak of too. Thank you for reminding people of these things from days gone by.
Love that 😀
This is how my grandmother and great grandmother made them. They are yummy. I miss sitting around with my grandma shelling nuts at Christmas time, doing green beans, hulling strawberries, husking corn, etc. Such good memories.
I am still amazed at how closely your traditions and the traditions I grew up with mirror each other. Like the processing of corn after harvest, the "stringing" and "snapping" of pole beans were always the beginning of a weekend filled with laughter and closeness with uncles, aunts, cousins and mom and sister at grandpa's. Fish being fried or meat BBQ'ing, taking turns turning the handle of the ice cream maker, smelling the fruit pies as grandma placed them on the washer and dryer to cool, I remember even as a very young child stopping to listen to all of the sounds a love-filled family made. and knowing how lucky I was. I remember wishing I could stay there in that time and keep time from moving on.
I still cook my beans by cooking garden grown onions in bacon grease, adding whatever garden peppers were the sweetest, throwing the shredded bacon back in the pot with the onions & peppers when they were soft, and adding the beans. Everything frying slowly while being stirred with the flavors marrying in the bacon grease. When you start smelling the beans (about 5-8 minutes) you add the water or chicken broth (if fried chicken happened to be the main dish that Sunday). Opening my eyes just now I'm back in my living room smelling the greasy and rattlesnake beans as they cook slowly with the hint of cornbread. Again, thank you all for reminding me I'm never really alone. And when my days are done, I'll close my eyes one last time and begin to hear the sounds a love-filled family makes! God bless you all!
I grew up in Germany and my grandmother would cook them soft as well, and she would add savory herb to the beans while they were cooking. Which we actually call Bohnenkraut= bean herb.
Some great memories of all of us sitting on the porch breaking beans. Laughing and cutting up. The stories about the “old days”.
Mama would let us pick what we wanted for supper on our birthdays. My choice was always green beans, red potatoes and ham meat. And sweet cornbread. Still my favorite meal.
Thank you for reminding me of those times.
Thank you...my family was born in Appalachian mts. My dad joined the air force so I only got to see my Tennessee relatives on rate occasions. This reminds me of those rare and lovely times in Johnson City with my hillbilly grannies that I miss so much!!
My mom cooked them like you did. My sister leaves a little crunch. Love them either way. My grandma made salt pork for breakfast. Fried crispy. My mom said she would take a biscuit with salt pork for school lunch sometimes and some of the kids wanted to trade a sandwich for her biscuit. Loved this video
Glad you enjoyed the video Frank 🙂
And they carried that lunch in a lard pale asa lunch box… my Moma did
I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. We ate green beans just like you made them. Watching you makes my mouth water.
I grew up on green beans and I love them. My parents always had a garden and they grew half runners. Nothing is better than green beans, cornbread, with a slice of onion and tomatoes. That is a great meal to me. So many of the things you show remind me of our family and growing up. Thank you so much.
My late father always loved half runners and Kentucky wonder beans. Also shelly beans.
We always cooked potatoes with our green beans, too.
Oh yeah, I meant to tell you we’re from Kentucky.
My sister and I used to visit my grandma in summer time after my grandpa passed away down in KY, we lived in a larger city in Michigan so I loved spending time in KY at Grandma's house. She had a huge garden and I would help her pick the vegetables then in the evenings we sat on her front porch swing and snap the green beans and talk. I loved this special time with Grandma. My mom and Grandma always used to fix their green beans the way you do except they would quarter either red potatoes or peel and quarter white potatoes and we always used mostly bacon but we'd add more bacon and cut it into chunks before adding them to the pot of beans and potatoes on the stove and cook them just like you do to your beans. It was good eating and nearly a meal by itself along with either buscuits or corn bread. I could never get enough of those beans!
My grandmother recently passed from dementia and I recognized these beans. I didn’t know what kind they were until now. I spent many hours doing this with her. Thank you for bringing back so many wonderful childhood memories!
My grandparents always grew Kentucky Wonders. I would help pick, snap, and destring. Grandma fixed them up in a big pot with a little bacon grease. There would always be pepper sauce on the table. Grandpa would always dowse his beans with it. Green Bean memories...lol
When I would spend summers with my Mammaw in Knoxville she would always make me string the beans from her garden... you never had a choice she would sit on her swing and make you come sit by her and tell stories while you did it... I have not thought about it for 40 years thank you for the wonderful memory!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Her maiden name was Allen and she was was also related to Franklins ...You remind me of all my relations in the Smokeys!!!! I love your videos!!!! please never stop!!
My mamaw always sat on the porch to strung and snap the beans too. She had to be moving so we were either in the swing or her porch glider. She had them in a brown paper bag that she would tear open and lay in her lap and the bowl sitting between us. Those memories are so strong I can feel the bump of the bean and the pull of the string. I sure do miss those beans cooked with salt bacon.
Mama and Mamaw cooked green beans like that, and I do it the same way to this very day. We used to grow a nice garden when I was little and used to pick beans, butter beans etc and shell peas all the time with my dad's mother. These are skills most kids don't have today. Thanks for the memories.
I love them soft also! I was raised in new Hampshire and my mom taught us to cook them with good ole salt pork. We always had beans in the garden, plus my dad grew wax beans, which are delicious also, and mom would cook them together, love your page!!
This brought back my childhood memories stringing and snapping with my granny and momma. My family makes them like how you cooked em. When my daughter was a little one she charmed the man that brought the beans to the church pot lucks and he would always give her a big bag to take home.
Such a sweet story 🙂
My Mama always cooked green beans in the pressure cooker, and they always came out soft. When she had it, she used salt pork for seasoning, but she called it side meat like you do. Loved my Mama's cooking, and passed it on to my kids. :-)
Yes my mom cooked them like this all the time. Miss her so much.
I come of the southern coal fields of Wv (Logan County) and I now live in upstate South Carolina. I grew up eating garden green beans and they are my favorite next to fresh garden tomatoes. My mom usually put bacon in her beans and she would cook them all day on the stove but she would cook all the water out of them. And sometimes she would scorch the bottom just a bit. Those scorched beans were my FAVORITE!!!! Lol. I know burnt food is usually horrible, but for some reason, I just LOVE scorched green beans, burnt pop corn and slightly burnt wieners and bologna. I sure would love some of my precious mommy’s home cooked garden green beans. She is with Jesus now and I will never get to eat anymore of her cookin. But I would rather her be with Jesus than to be down here cookin for me. Thank you for the video. God loves you and your family. Jesus loves you and your family and died for you all. God bless you all.
I spent many afternoons snapping peas and shucking corn.. I LOVE your channel! It helps me to remember the simple days.
Stringing and breaking beans was one of my first chores in the kitchen. I like my bean cooked the Appalachian way. Yum!
This ol’ Tennessee girl likes them just like you cooked them!! Perfect!
My family is from Appalachia but I left with my dad when I was young. Every now and then we'd go visit aunts and uncles and I'd have this food but I never learned to cook it. I used to love these beans and I can't wait to cook some for my family now. I just found your site and I'm loving your videos.
Welcome and thank you 😊
I grew up in East Tennesse, and this is exactly how we cooked our beans. While my Dad was living, he grew his own beans, and nothing compares to them now. Sigh. We also had cornbread like yours, but I’ve never been able to make it as good. I really enjoy hearing you talk and watching you cook!
I also grew up in East Tennessee (Johnson city & elizabethton) and these are the green beans I grew up on too
I always got to help string and snap the beans. My mom cooked them with onions, and fatback and pepper, with boiled potatoes, and of course cornbread. That's the best way to i love to eat them. Thanks for sharing this. i eat this all the tyme as my veggie dish. minus the fatback, Lol, memories, Sunday blessings
My grandma fixed beans very similar to this. I can remember sitting on her back porch breaking beans overlooking the garden. Such a sweet time. Her favorite beans she called pole beans.
Love the old way of cooking green beans. Your way is also my way.
My Grandma and Mom always cooked them until they were soft and with bacon. So good!
They look delicious. My Grandma used to sit on the porch and string beans and cook them the same ss you.
This brought back fond memories of “snapping” beans with my grandmother in WV. We sat in the swing on the back porch. We cook our beans the same way, until they are soft. Thanks for the post!
Same with me, except we snapped beans on the swing on the front porch. My grandma used to plant McCaslans. I guess that's a favorite in WV. She sent me some one year but I had no luck. I think the cold Maine air wasn't suitable. Such good memories and such delicious beans.
Exactly the same! I grew up thinking my Granny and mother were just "southern", and your videos made me know my Appalachian roots! I love my veggies cooked just like this, with cornbread, of course. If I want crunchy veggies, I'll just eat a salad.
I like mine to be done! I prefer stringless bush beans and really like the slender ones but the fuller ones are good. We used to get in trouble for squeezing the sides of the bean and shoot each other with the shellies. We used what we had for seasoning too but really liked smoked sausage in ours+new potatoes. I guess we ended up with a one pot meal. My favorite thing from the garden!
Mom always used bacon grease or ham hocks. She always bought fresh hocks. I didn’t even know about smoked hocks until I was about forty years old. Sometimes mom would use a hambone with some of the meat left on it.
I just recently learned that smoked sausage, green beans, and potatoes was called Hoosier stew. Who knew? Always delicious. I cooked mine in one of those small metal crock pots.
@@rld1278 That's funny, I'm from Indiana.
That brought back memories... now I'm wanting fresh beans to snap and cook.. thank you for showing this.
I remember so many summer suppers of green beans, cornbread and sliced tomatoes.
I'm in Knoxville just over the mountains from you, and we have had wonderful success with rattlesnake pole beans. They have such a wonderful flavor and are exceptionally productive for months on end. I use them as stringless beans when picked early, string beans when later, and shellie beans when left on too long -- and all are great. So glad I discovered them by accident when buying seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and decided to try them out.
White McCaslen pole beans taste fabulous, are almost stringless flat beans and a wonderful benefit is that they taste fantastic as blanched frozen beans. Our grandparents, would cook the frozen ones at Christmas and they tasted like they had just come out of the garden.
@@LittlebitofDixie I'll be sure to keep an eye out for that variety; thanks!
We always cooked our beans this way, usually had either corn bread or biscuits with them, fried taters, chicken, and wilted branch lettuce and onions or mustard greens.
We also cook them until they are very soft almost to the mushy point. with jowl bacon or smoked ham hock, freshly cooked green beans are always amazing.and to me cornbread goes with anything, thank’s ever so much for sharing.
They are so good 🙂
And a big glass of buttermilk, yum
Both sides of my family are descended from Appalachians and the "soft" version of green beans was passed down; it's all I ever knew. Grandmas and aunts would can tons and serve them all winter long. I don't actually like crispy ones; they taste kind of grassy to me. Dad's family would season the finished pot with a spoonful of bacon grease.
I learned to make green beans with bacon from my grandmother who was born near Ashville NC in 1885. I still do it this way. Thanks for the memory.
My grandparents lived in the Poconos in PA and we went bean picking every year, ate them cooked just like yours and canned a bunch. Ham and string beans, good old country cooking.
When I was young we would hear from my grandmother when the corn and beans would come in and we'd load up the car and travel from Atlanta to Canton, NC. My sister and I helped, too, but we were never allowed to string and break beans for fear we'd leave strings. We were relegated to shucking and silking the corn. I thought my Ma-Maw was the only one that picky, but clearly your mom is too! So proud when I was finally given the "honor" of preparing the beans!
I bring them to a hard boil, drain and rinse, to get the 'green' out of them. My mother-in-law taught me this. My mother broke them up like you did. My MIL said once or twice, no more than that. I guess it's a personal preference. I also love to add left over corn in my beans.
Granny liked to have 2 beans in each break.
I grew up with these and can't wait to make them again! Thanks,
I also grew up eating and loving green beans cooked this way. My grandmother always used fatback and my mom used bacon. Every once in a while they'd throw in a few new potatoes. Yum! It took me a long time to enjoy a crispy green bean but I prefer to eat them the way I grew up. I really enjoy your channel! Thanks so much!
As a girl, I spent many a day stringing beans. And stringing beans on a thread and hanging them in the attic for shuck beans. Thanks for the good memories.
I’m up in Canada, and I like them very soft, also. My mom’s mother, I never knew her, came from Kentucky, so maybe this is a trickle-down taste preference 😁. You present a normalcy, in your day to day living that you’re sharing, and too many young people have never had that, and too many others have left it behind, or forgotten it, I think. Thank you for your videos and messages.
Thank you 🙂
God bless you being in Canada 🇨🇦 🙏
Oh my yes. Sitting on the porch snappin beans. Still do it with my grandbabies. Good times!
That’s exactly how I make my green beans. I wash and bring them to a boil whether it’s fresh or dried beans. I know I’m doing it right when you say that’s how Miss Granny does hers. I put ham hocks in mine sometimes too and pick out the meat to add to them. I love leftover beans with cornbread and pot liquor with a bet of hot sauce from the vinegar pickled peppers or a green onion. Yummmm yummmmm watching your video made me hungry. I can’t wait to see your next video. Thanks for keeping the old ways alive before they’re forgotten. Stay safe and be well. 🌞
I learned about rattlesnake pole beans from Old Alabama Gardener, and how to can them with open kettle method. I am now harvesting our first crop of them and haven’t cooked any yet, just canned 6 qt and 17 pints so far. About time to cook a pot of green beans Appalachia style! I do like the shellies in there. Thanks for sharing.
My teen years I grew up in southeastern KY. Everywhere I went there was a pot of green beans cooking. I LOVE green Beans.My mother can make Green Beans with cooking oil that tastes like they have been simmering in a piece of meat all day.
One of my favorite memories of my childhood was sitting on the front porch with my Grandma and Grandpa helping my Grandma snap beans. My Grandma always cooked them with some fatback, and for a long time.. They were delicious!
My grandma called it "snappin beans" or "stringin beans". Either way cook them low and slow all day with some kind of pork. Yum. I also spent a lot of time shelling purple hull peas for her. No matter how many peas I shelled it seemed I looked down in the bag and there were just as many as when I started lol. Our big family called for a big mess. Love your videos. God bless yall.
My family called it working the beans. I have such fond memories sittin round the kitchen or porch and working them with my Mamaw,Aunts and cousins.
My dad always grew Blue Lakes. When he decided to go into the minister and we moved from western part of WV to the South east part of WV, everyone grew half runners. My dad did not like them because of the strings. When I met my husband he grew up eating half runners and then tried the blue lakes and loved them. Our very first garden I canned over 200 quarts of blue lakes. I had beautiful beans. Where we live now the ground is not the greatest for a garden, so we have raised beds. I have come across a new bean, it is a pole bean, called Fortex and they are absolutely delicious! They have a little sweetness to them and are just beautiful. My grandkids love picking them. They grow pretty long, so that I love and they can up really well. No strings!!!! I cook my a long time too. Since I can not have alot of fat, I add a beef or ham base seasoning and we like an onion cut up in the beans while they are cooking to flavor them.
Thank you for the "traditional" way. My mother would do them traditional style with smoked ham hocks, and those beans were COOKED! None of this crisp/tender BS. When "new" baby red potatoes were in season, she'd add those to the pot for the last 40 minutes or so. They were small so she'd add them whole or just cut in half. The broth is the best part with come cornbread.
We called them "new potatoes." My parents made them like this often, and oh man...were they delicious! Usually we'd have tomatoes, cucumbers, and green onions from the garden too. I feel like I could eat a whole pot by myself right now! 😆
You're right. No crisp green beans. They have to be cooked to death with bacon grease, some ham bits, and either new potatoes or silver queen white corn added
Mmm, mmm good eating on a Sunday meal and left overs on Monday.
@@t.m.b.1122 my mom added potatoes like that too! :)
That was how my gramma made them. Soo good and easy to make and a really affordable meal.
@@RLS-bu4bj Yup, we'd have it as an entire meal of green beans with whatever smoked meat it had in it, and corn bread.
I'm a yankee I suppose, but in the late 70s through mid 80s I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. This is exactly how we grew up fixing a mess of beans. Wed sit on the porch in the evenings breaking beans we had picked from the garden that day. Bags and bags of the ( we called them pokes). I didnt like working in the garden, didnt like breaking beans, blah blah blah! Lol. But, when I got grown, I was so thankful that I had to do those things, because I definitely likes EATING them, and I knew how to grow and prepare them. We even cooked on a wood stove, got our water from a spring, and used an outhouse. It was definitely culture shock for a 'city girl' but I wouldn't trade it for anything! Thanks for sharing this video😘
I grew up in Hope Mills, NC and this is exactly how we loved our string beans cooked, I married a wonderful Guy from Chicago and he liked them slightly cooked with beacon. He is now a Country Boy that loves our way of cooking country food.
They taste better if you fry the bacon first and then add it and the grease to the green beans.
I have such fond memories of breaking bushels of Kentucky Wonder green beans from my Granny's garden! We would have such wonderful talks while we broke them and canned them. There is nothing better than fresh canned green beans all year long! I remember when strawberries came in we kids would be sitting on the back porch hulling strawberries waiting on the school bus. We would get to school with red sticky fingers! Such wonderful memories of my time living in Appalachia! Granny would add a dollop of butter to the beans while they were cooking. If they scorched, I loved the browned beans stuck tot he bottom of the pan!
I'm from Alabama and I don't know how Alabamians cook there's but I do the same as you,even growing nothing but rattlesnake beans except my family cooks them down leaving no juice at all.That IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE RECEIPE.
IT really does make a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
this is the first time I heard of stringing beans. when I started my garden years ago I had a pole bean that produced like crazy but my wife didn't like them because of the string I never knew to remove. I grew bush beans and they didn't seem to have any strings. thank you so much. I really feel foolish.
No reason to feel foolish at all! I'm learning stuff everyday that I feel like I should have known-we're all learning as we live 🙂
These look delicious. My Granny always cooked her beans like this. I still love them this way. She lived in Savannah, Ga. Your videos remind me of her and the great memories we made. Thank you so much. 🤗
I sure miss my grandma. Us grandkids would sit out on her porch breaking/stringing beans. We always asked her to write down her recipes, she didnt know measurements, just a pinch of this and a pinch of that. Those greenbeans were exactly like she made em.
We always loved our green beans fixed this way. My Daddy was raised in the country & was used to buckwheat pancakes with black strap molasses on them instead of maple syrup. He had cousins from the mountains of Tennessee that visited us one time when I was little that were so tall that they had to duck to get in the front door & wore the classic one strap denim overalls & big cloddhopper boots...that was a funny memory....lol My Mom was full blooded Italian, her parents were Italian immigrants & she would cook anything that pleased Daddy so we had a blend of Italian & Country Mountain cooking....💖💖 .....such good memories....
One of my favorite meals. My Mamaw had to get every string off, so that's how I do it. These days I use frozen green beans, which is best when you can't grow your own. Shelley beans are great too. Always have a ham shank or hock to add to the pot. Great video! Young people who were not fortunate to be raised in Appalachia should archive your recipes.
I love green beans cooked the traditional way.
Definitely love the green beans cooked soft with smoked hog jowl or ham hocks. Don't drain mine after cooking them for a few minutes cause most of the nutrients go down the drain. Have to have hot buttered cornbread or hoecakes with them. Usually also with fried chicken and cream potatoes and gravy as well. Great video as always. Take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀
I grew up in Kentucky and we cook our green beans just like you. Oh so so good!
Thank you again for all you do. This video in particular stirred up a lot of memories of my childhood. My grandmother always had green beans like this and we would all sit around and string and snap the beans. The joke of Granny saying she doesn’t mind you’re girls leaving strings reminded me of something my Grandmother would’ve said. Thank you. Great content ma’am, God bless you and your family!
So glad you enjoyed the video 🙂 Glad you've got those good memories!
So nice to see someone pass along how a lot of us grew up eating. That is the only way to eat beans. :)
I grew up in Missouri with my grandparent's huge garden. I always got to help string and snap the beans. My Grandma Effie cooked them with onions, and fatback and pepper till they were soft, and served them with boiled potatoes, cornbread. That's the best way to eat them. Thanks for sharing this.
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I love fresh green beans , stewed potatoes, fried green tomatoes and cornbread….this video makes me so hungry.
Tipper did you know if you have 5 qts of beans to can, you can put them into 7 qts then add about a tablespoon of dry beans (pinto or northern) in the top + water and salt and process as usual. Looks like shelly beans but you have faked it. lol
My mother used to add a can of pinto beans to commercial canned green beans when she cooked them. It made a big difference in the taste and they appeared to have shellies in them like fresh green beans.
MaryR, I'll have to remember that. I soooooo miss Shelly beans with potatoes cooled on them. Mom would always at least put some bacon grease in them if we didn't have some meat to out in them. Thanks Mrs Tipper for the memories!
Mmmmm yum 😋 I like mine soft. My memory with fresh green beans, my only grandparent was my Grandma Lela. She knew I loved fresh green beans with potatoes & bacon cooked all together, and brought me a whole serving bowl full for me only. I love and miss her. She even taught me how to sew on a Singer pedal sewing machine. Once, she told me: “You reap what you sow,” I always thought she meant if you didn’t sew it right the first time that you’d have to rip the thread and redo it lol 😆, when all along she was telling me if you don’t sow you don’t reap.
Green beans come from the freezer section at the grocery store and are lightly steamed so they don’t lose their crunch. I’m definitely a city girl. But you are such a good teacher that I watch every video. Especially the garden and the cooking. Home grown and home cooked is a lot of work!
I live in Oklahoma, we always wash out beans before we snap them.( while they are whole) We always plant bush beans too. you have to stand on your head almost to pick them. Love watching you plant and cook, and listening to your family. Really enjoy Your videos.
I'm from Western North Carolina too, and I definitely grew up eating my green beans cooked like this! Delicious!!
I sat on my porch in Australia & shelled a bucket of beans from my garden along with you. They are a beautiful red & white marbled bean, the seeds were a hand me down from someone in my community. Shelling beans is a social activity so thanks for the company!
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The more you tell stories about Granny the more I like her.
I grew up eating green beans exactly as you cooked them. My mother was from Texas, and that's how they ate them there, usually with corn bread from her cast iron skillet to soak up the juices. We used bacon, mostly, and added some onion to the pot as well. I like green beans cooked all sorts of ways, but your method reminds me of my mom and my childhood, and they're my favorite. Your pre-cooking technique is very helpful! Thanks.
Mmm, our beans are just starting to come in strong, this is good inspiration. I honestly love green beans so much that I'll eat them in any form or fashion, ha! I just had pickled green beans for the first time and oh my LANDS, they were good. Totally different from the traditional.