gunnerclark
March 30th, 2006, 11:37pm
This bean seasoning takes only two months to make so hop to it people
I use old glass jars with bail wires or old olive oil bottles with wider mouths on them but a clean sterile mason jar or mayo jar should work fine
Slice and dice up nicely a green pepper and an onion(yellow is best). Until they are about the size of the side of an individual die(dice).
Then pack in equal ammounts in the jar hand mixed. After adding two good tablespoons full of pickling salt(non-iodixed)pore hot cider vinigar over them until full. Cap and then let them set for two months or more.
Spoon out and drain vinigar according to taste into the crock pot with the dried beans.
The aged/pickled aromatics add a nice kick to the pot of beans and is easily noticable. You can do this with fresh onions and peppers but I find that this quick pickling of them adds a whole new realm of flavor
I use three varients.
1 the standard as mentioned above
2 one good banana or Jalopeno diced and added per two pint is also good
3 Minced Garlic according to taste
I have three bottles aging as i write this. It makes a pot of dried beans have a nice flavor when you might be tired of just adding the standard ham flavor or ham hock.
I use old glass jars with bail wires or old olive oil bottles with wider mouths on them but a clean sterile mason jar or mayo jar should work fine
Slice and dice up nicely a green pepper and an onion(yellow is best). Until they are about the size of the side of an individual die(dice).
Then pack in equal ammounts in the jar hand mixed. After adding two good tablespoons full of pickling salt(non-iodixed)pore hot cider vinigar over them until full. Cap and then let them set for two months or more.
Spoon out and drain vinigar according to taste into the crock pot with the dried beans.
The aged/pickled aromatics add a nice kick to the pot of beans and is easily noticable. You can do this with fresh onions and peppers but I find that this quick pickling of them adds a whole new realm of flavor
I use three varients.
1 the standard as mentioned above
2 one good banana or Jalopeno diced and added per two pint is also good
3 Minced Garlic according to taste
I have three bottles aging as i write this. It makes a pot of dried beans have a nice flavor when you might be tired of just adding the standard ham flavor or ham hock.