Green or Yellow Pickle Beans
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Aunt Bea equal-parts vinegar and sugar recipe with pickling spice
Blue Binder Aunt Bea card
From Aunt Bea.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1 teaspoon mixt pickling spice
Directions
- Cook until tender
Temperature: Cook until tender
Equipment: cooking vessel; stirring utensil
Notes
- Yellow beans are best
As written
Aunt Bea.
Wax-bean equal-parts vinegar, water, and sugar recipe
Blue Binder edited wax-bean page
From an upper-left name resembling 'Mrs Oakley' and a lower black-ink name resembling 'Dorothy ...ell'.
Ingredients
- green or yellow wax pickle beans; syrup made from 1 cup Vinegar, 1 cup water, and 1 cup sugar
Directions
- Cook beans until [done crossed out] or tender., with later alternatives 'or use Raw' and 'or just Blanch for 3 min'
- or use Raw
- or just Blanch for 3 min
- Pack in jars and put syrup on them.
- Cold pack for 10 or 15 minutes.
Timing: 3 min; 10 or 15 minutes
Temperature: tender; Raw; Blanch; Cold pack
Equipment: jars; cooking or blanching vessel; cold-pack processing equipment
Notes
- Very good.
As written
Ma Oakley Very good.
Darby Well
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “done” to “or tender.”
- Added “or use Raw”
- Added “or just Blanch for 3 min”
Compare the cards
Pickling liquid
- Blue Binder Aunt Bea card
- 1 cup sugar, 1 cup vinegar, 1 teaspoon mixt pickling spice, no water
- Blue Binder edited wax-bean page
- 1 cup vinegar, 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, no pickling spice
Bean preparation and preservation
- Blue Binder Aunt Bea card
- Cook until tender; no jar, processing, cooling, or storage step is included
- Blue Binder edited wax-bean page
- Tender preparation revised with raw or three-minute blanch alternatives; pack in jars, add syrup, and cold pack 10 or 15 minutes
Attribution and evaluation
- Blue Binder Aunt Bea card
- Aunt Bea.; Yellow beans are best
- Blue Binder edited wax-bean page
- Very good.; upper name likely Mrs Oakley or similar; lower name likely Dorothy ...ell, both unresolved
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