The Beans Again
Dear Aunt Daisy, I was glad to read the "Bean Puzzle" in The Listener for this week (April 4-10) for I have had a similar experience both this year and» last year, and have known others who have also had this experience. I do not wish to disappoint "Putaruru," but I am affaid
that my last year’s beans did not keep, | neither did those of a neighbour with a similar experience. I’m afraid the blame is in the salt. Previously the "cooking salt" I bought was always of a lumpy dampish kind unfit for table use, and this salt made brine quickly; the only "cooking salt" I can buy now is quite different-finely granulated and very like "table salt’-and this salt will not make brine. After last year’s failure I watched my beans this year, and when I noticed that they did not act as I expected I just filled up the jars with water, stirring as much as I could betweén the beans to dissolve the salt. I don’t know whether this: will be effective, but I hope so. A friend who bought her salt at a different shop found it dissolved readily, The only satisfactory solution seems to be to change one’s method, since one can’t be sure of the quality of the salt. Please tell "Putaruru" not to depend on her beans keeping satisfactorily if the salt has not yet formed brine.
Tried Twice
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 22
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240The Beans Again New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 22
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