65
Finally, after YEARS of trial and error failures, today I've made Thicket Beans palatable and not poisonous! (pxlmo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/foraging@slrpnk.net
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Finally, after YEARS of trial and error failures, today I've made Thicket Beans palatable and not poisonous! I went whole hog, 24 hour soak with 2 changes of salty, alkaline water. Boiling in another change. Pressure cooking after. And then boiling AGAIN. Lastly stewing with some sauce as a faux baked beans. It's pretty good! The process could certainly be optimized but now I know it IS at least doable.

#foraging #nativeplants @foraging@slrpnk.net #technicallynotforagingigrewthis

A hand holding a glass jar, in the background there's a tangle of vegetation. Some of the vegetation are bean pods on vines, growing all through everything else. The jar has some small, shiny black beans in it. Their sizes are quite variable.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

What are thicket beans? What’s the botanical name?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Phaseolus polystachios. Same genus as most of our common beans in the U.S., but the only one that's native I think? And it's perennial. It's more closely related to lima beans than any variety of vulgaris though, despite looking more like the latter than the former.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent