Re: Must be Soup Weather :)

On 2025-01-12, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:28:03 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote:
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It's chilly here in southern South Carolina.  40F/4C right now and windy
so it feels colder.  It won't get much warmer than that today.
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I'll be making a large pot of 15 Bean Soup (Hurst's HamBeens) using
diced ham (as opposed to ham hocks, sausage or a ham bone).  I'm using
the crock pot/slow cooker for this.
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Yes, I'll bake a skillet of cornbread to go with it. :)
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Jill
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I've yet to ever make any sort of beans in the crockpot.

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  if the crockpot doesn't get hot enough you could be
getting more toxins than you should.  certain ones in
some kinds of beans (red beans, but some others too)
make it important enough to make sure they get a good
boil.  at higher elevations this may be a significant
challenge.

Modern crockpots get pretty hot.  Carol and Jill are
pretty much at sea level.  Joan is at 597' (if I remember
her location correctly).

But those HamBeens are gooooood!  Plus, I've never soaked
a bean in my life, it's not necessary nor 'healthful.'

I just now was moved to wonder about 'healthful'.  I didn't
see anything about health in either of these references:

https://www.allrecipes.com/do-you-need-to-soak-dried-beans-8718399
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https://www.allrecipes.com/how-to-cook-dry-beans-without-soaking-7377831

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Cindy Hamilton