I would like to share my mother's recipe for green beans. I know green beans don't sound very exciting but if you prepare them just like the recipe and don't change or leave out anything you will be the talk of your friends and everyone will beg you to share the recipe. Some of the things called for sounds a little strange, I know, but please try to go by the recipe and you won't be sorry. Here it is.
4 slices of pre-sliced salt pork washed and rendered. (Microwave on high 4 minutes)
2 fifty oz. cans or one gallon can cut blue lake cut green beans with the liquid
1 fifteen oz can French cut green beans
2 fifteen oz. cans of small new potatoes with liquid
Salt if needed
Start the day before you plan to serve
Put green beans and rendered fat in a presto or any pressure cooker
Add two (2) cups or less of water
Cook under pressure for one (1) hour (start timing when top starts jiggling)
After one (1) hour remove from heat and let cool until all pressure is released
Remove cover and let beans simmer (barely boiling) until bed time (add water, a little at a time, as necessary)
Turn heat off and replace top. Leave on stove top
Turn beans on as soon as you get up next morning
Let beans simmer until you are ready to serve
1 to 11/2 hours before serving add potatoes with their liquid
You can substitute ¼ cup vegetable oil for the rendered salt pork but the beans won't be as good. You can also half (50 oz.) the cut green beans but if you do leave everything else the same. The beans will turn almost black and will smell great. These are the green beans served in heaven. Let me know what you think. If you are brave enough to try them you won't be sorry.
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