How do you put up your peas?

[pinkytuscadero]

I'm going to pick up some pink eye purple hulls and some butterbeans.

Which way do you put up yours? Do you blanch and keep in pot liquor or do you do the "no wash" dry method.

Thanks,

Pinky

[amanda]

I've always blanched mine Pinky. :) They just seem to taste a lot fresher when you take them out of the freezer. Especially if you add any snaps to the peas.

[threekidspa]

We do the blanching thing here too. :) Love them peas! They make good ice packs too!

[pinkytuscadero]

I think I am just feeling lazy and wanted someone to tell me it would be ok to do it 1/2 a'd. :smt118

Mom says they have shelled ones at Shady acres right now for 22.00 a bushel

[SueScribe]

Throw them washed babies into some boiling water. When water comes back to a low boil, start counting. Stir two or three times while peas blanch for ten minutes, then remove from heat and drain. Put drained peas into stainless steel bowl and set them into a sink sufficiently filled with ice water (no water spilling over into the bowl, that is). Gently lift peas, move them around - Cool them off QUICKLY.

Bag and freeze. NO juice.

[dasmybaby]

i personally prefer to can mine.

[dasmybaby]

Lot 0 work but you don't have to worry about power outages. About the only items I can anymore are garden relishes.

I remember my grandmaw even canned beef in Mason jars, which was later used mostly for soups. Her canning pantry looked like a big wine cellar of all kinds of goodies.

A'course she didn't own a freezer in dem days and didn't trust electricity back then, either.

not really that bad if you use a pressure canner rather than doing all hot water baths...that's how my mom's is. just not canned beef though. never have canned meat. all manner of fruits, veggies, and salsas/relishes/jellies and such, we have canned though.

i don't trust electricity to this day. where we live, the power goes off if a rabbit farts across the creek. goes off and stays off for several hours in the middle of the day. or at night. and we only know because the clocks are blinking.

[pinkytuscadero]

I did something I've never done. I blanched the first 1/2 in broth of chicken I had just cooked for something else. I hope this is ok.

The next 1/2 of the bushel will be regular water.

Do I need to throw this first 1/2 away? It seemed like a good idea at the time, now, not so much.

Pinky

[countrygirl]

I blanch mine and let them cool in the liquid that I cooked them in....I usually put the pot in the sink with cold ice water to cool them off more quicky. I put the peas, butterbeans in a freezer bag and then put them in the freezer. You don't throw away the flavor, vitamins, ect. that way. They really do taste better.