Comments on: A Bean, By Any Other Name, Wouldst Taste As Sweet?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:43:41 +0000

Hello!! I bought these strange white and red pearl beans at my local farmers market yesterday. They were just so pretty! The lady at the stand said they were like a kidney or a black eyed, but I wasn’t sure what to do with them – cook them, or store them, or how! Thanks for your page and great recipe, which I plan to try out today!

By: Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:50:18 +0000

I grew up with cranberry beans. Thanks for bringing back that memory. I think my granny or grandpop got them originally from our 100 year old neighbor, Mrs. Whitaker. We grew as many as 200 pounds of them every year. They made great baked beans. We just knew them as Mrs. Whitaker’s beans, until I learned cranberry beans. Never heard that they were Italian or horticultural beans til here. Thanks for reminding me.

By: Tigers & Strawberries » Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit!

Tigers & Strawberries » Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit! — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:30:30 +0000

[...] said the other night that soup sounded good for dinner the next day, and I had fresh horticultural beans in my refrigerator from the farmer’s market, and some ham (but no ham bone) in the freezer, [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:51:57 +0000

I just made your recipe last night and it was delicious. My mom is from East Tennessee and my dad was from Arkansas, so I grew up eating shelly beans (if we were lucky, from my grandparents’ farm outside of Knoxville near the mountains). Anyway, I found cranberry beans at a local farm stand near where I live outside of Albany, New York, and bought them because they were so interesting-looking…had no idea what they were nor what I was going to do with them. My husband (who is a fine cook) actually recognized them as cranberry beans, so I googled around for recipes and found yours. Since I’m a grandchild of the South, I keep bacon grease for making cornbread, and between our herb garden and local farm stand, amassed all of the herbs and vegetables needed. Oh, and I threw in a parmesan rind while the beans were cooking; used penne because we had some really good whole wheat on hand. My husband and I had a lovely candlelit dinner and I’ll be making this again. I think I’ll go back to the farm stand and buy some more beans and freeze them, and we’ll be bringing our herb pots in for the winter…thank you so much!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:40:44 +0000

We live in Missouri and what would a garden be without horticulture beans? Granny always referred to them as “bird egg” beans and we still call them that today. Just finished two days of “beaning” and have 88 pints of those little rascals in my freezer..but..oh my aching thumbs!!! Nothing better in the winter then bird egg beans and cornbread..pintos can’t hold a candle to these brown beans! My brother, his wife, my 86 yr old mother, my husband and me..shelling beans, laughing and remembering good times! Heaven!!