{"id":2656,"date":"2012-10-18T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2012-10-18T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:00:50","slug":"q-and-a-drying-beans-and-canning-green-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/10\/18\/q-and-a-drying-beans-and-canning-green-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: drying beans and canning green tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drying beans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I planted cranberry bean for the first time this year. The majority of them dried fine in their shells but some are still in green shells (even thought I dried them in dehydrator) and some just have a green tinge to them. Are any of these green, greenish, etc. bean safe to eat?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sandra Swanson<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lake Stevens, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are safe to eat as long as they didn&#8217;t mold. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning green tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;d love to can some green tomatoes. I&#8217;ve seen recipes to just stack sliced green tomatoes in the jar, add 1 t lemon juice, but no water, and process in boiling water bath for 45 minutes. I&#8217;ve also seen put sliced green tomatoes in jar, add boiling water, and process in boiling water bath for 7 minutes. What do you think? I&#8217;d love to not add water, but am afraid the long processing time will make the tomatoes mushy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jo MacDonald<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mount Horeb, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recipe my aunt used was to stack the green tomato slices in a hot widemouth jar, adding 1 tsp lemon juice, 1 tsp salt, and fill jars with boiling water, leaving 1\/2 inch of headspace. Process in a boiling water bath for 25 minutes I do think 45 minutes might be a little overkill. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drying beans I planted cranberry bean for the first time this year. The majority of them dried fine in their shells but some are still in green shells (even thought I dried them in dehydrator) and some just have a green tinge to them. Are any of these green, greenish, etc. bean safe to eat? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}