"Julie Bove" wrote:
>
>I had asked about these before. I don't think these are the real deal. I
>did some research on this and everything I saw said that the real ones are
>the mature seed of the green bean.

That applies to all beans, they all have a pod.

>If they were as simple as pintos and green we could just buy two cans and
>mix them. And I would but I don't think that's what Shellie/Shelly beans
>really are.

Shelly/shellie beans can be any variety of bean, simply means a
*fresh* [shelled] bean as averse to a dried bean. Most canned beans
are cooked dried beans... but shelly beans are the same beans canned
fresh. All frozen beans are shelly beans.
http://www.foodsubs.com/Shellbeans.html

Not familiar with the Shellbean terminology..but..was raised on fresh pintos and snaps. Seems like the Game plan is use the more mature pods for the bean part..discarding the hulls and use the younger more tender of the bunch broken up as the snaps. Boiled up with a little bacon or smoked pork hocks. Makes a home canned product that is excellent. In fact yall are making me hongry here..lol. Black eyed peas work the same way. Sure as was previously mentioned any bean can be eat like that but peas and pintos seems to be all we tried. Glory makes an canned commercial version of Soul inspired Field Peas with Snaps..which is very good if you ever see it at the store.

"bigwheel" > wrote in message
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> Brooklyn1;1803709 Wrote:
>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>> 'Cook's Thesaurus: Fresh Beans'
>> (http://www.foodsubs.com/Shellbeans.html)
>
> Not familiar with the Shellbean terminology..but..was raised on fresh
> pintos and snaps. Seems like the Game plan is use the more mature pods
> for the bean part..discarding the hulls and use the younger more tender
> of the bunch broken up as the snaps. Boiled up with a little bacon or
> smoked pork hocks. Makes a home canned product that is excellent. In
> fact yall are making me hongry here..lol. Black eyed peas work the same
> way. Sure as was previously mentioned any bean can be eat like that but
> peas and pintos seems to be all we tried. Glory makes an canned
> commercial version of Soul inspired Field Peas with Snaps..which is very
> good if you ever see it at the store.

That's the one that I tried but I didn't care for it too much. The
proportions were off.