[aninocentangel]

I'm looking for instructions on how to make shelly beans. For that matter, when do you pick the beans for shelly beans? I think they're beans picked post snap stage and pre dry stage, but when I went out and picked some pole beans that were beyond the snap stage and the pods were lumpy, the beans were wee teeny still.

My spouse has got it in his head that he'd like me to make shelly beans like one of the ladies at church used to. One of my friends makes what she calls shelly beans, she stirs the beans (frozen butter beans) around in bacon grease until they get bright, then adds a little water and steams them for a few minutes, but the spouse says he thinks they're boiled in water for a few hours with salt pork and sometimes they have the pods? That sounds more like dry beans or leather britches to me. Unfortunately the lady who used to make them has passed away and while many remember her beans, no one seems to know how to make them.