our favorite recipies for heirloom green beans, straight from the garden. It comes from a Good Housekeeping Cook Book, first printed in 1942. I have the 1956 edition.
recipes
Elephant Stew with Heirloom vegetables
If more are expected,
2 rabbits can be added. But do this only if necessary as most people do not like to find hare in their stew.
Jalapeno poppers for winter
Too many jalapenos? I love to grow peppers. I love to pick peppers. I love to make salsa. But still there are peppers! I put them in chili, but that only takes a few. Now, we have found a very easy method of making jalapeno poppers. We freeze them and use them all throughout the winter.
Heirloom Tomatoes — How to can them for winter use
Pick ripe heirloom tomatoes. If you pick only red-ripe fruit, your end product will be prettier. If you pick them a little less ripe, the finished product will just be a little more pale. Stems tend to puncture the other tomatoes so I always harvest without stems. Wash the tomatoes and cut out the core [...]
Too many heirloom cucumbers!
When the heirloom cucumbers began producing, I had to look for more ways to use them. I already have enough pickling cucmbers made into dill pickles and others. Here is our favorite ways of using alot of open-pollinated cucmbers. Ours are the straight eight variety and are very nice this year. I like to pick [...]
