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[Celt5494]

Howdy:
Here in Amish country in NE Pa. we make something called Chicken Corn soup or Chicken Corn Chowder?? Is that the same thing as your Corn soup? Recipe please...if you can?
Also, I'm told that constant exposure to Beans will cause that Pipe Oran Music to subside? I've often wondered how Mexicans could eat ALL those beans and not kill each other with the after effects, now I know.
Thanks:
Two Feathers

That corn chowder is some good eatin !

 

[Rató:rats]

Howdy:
Here in Amish country in NE Pa. we make something called Chicken Corn soup or Chicken Corn Chowder?? Is that the same thing as your Corn soup? Recipe please...if you can?
Also, I'm told that constant exposure to Beans will cause that Pipe Oran Music to subside? I've often wondered how Mexicans could eat ALL those beans and not kill each other with the after effects, now I know.
Thanks:
Two Feathers

If the corn chowder you’re talking about has dairy in it it is not the same thing as traditional Haudenosaunee corn soup as obviously the First People had no cows until European contact. The recipe our friend Tom A Hawk posted is pretty close to how my girl and her mom make it except they won’t use kwis-kwis i.e pork. Moose or whitetail venison is the usual meat, also cottontail sometimes. Chicken is a shameful last resort, which they wrinkle their nose at and call Oneida-style. I’ve also had it with both venison AND fish as the protein source and it was surprisingly good. Here in Canada the First Nations have treaty hunting rights and aren’t required to adhere to the legal hunting seasons and limits us non-indigenous folk have to so getting game meat for the pot isn’t an issue usually. Another difference is they use the three sisters bean, the scarlet runner bean, and not canned kidney beans.
Like anywhere there is no standard way to make corn soup, each household and family putting their own spin on it because “that’s how grandma made it”.

 

[SOLANCO]

White beans with chicken thighs, bacon and rosemary tonight.

 

[SOLANCO]

Sometimes when I cook a dish with beans in it I'll take some of them and mash them to a paste, stir it back into the dish. Seems to thicken it up nicely.

 

[Master Blaster]

The caution(s) about using "old" dried beans should be well-heeded. I recommend using them up within a year or less because they can become inedible no matter how much you soak and cook them.

For something different try pinquito beans and look for "Santa Maria Beans" style recipes.

 

[sheriff john]

Management (wife) soaks Navy beans overnight, cooks, then adds them to her home made kraut. She's German, my father's family's German also. Never had kraut & beans before I met her family.

Always best to pick the rocks out of dried beans if you buy in large sacks. Kraut mit beans will explode your overalls. Guaranteed.

 

[Hawk54]

Naw. I just grab a can of what ever type I want and a can opener.

Bush's Country Style. Always have several cans on hand.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Chicken is a shameful last resort, which they wrinkle their nose at and call Oneida-style.

Hahaha... The poor Oneida had to relocate from central NY to Wisconsin.

I made refried beans today using pintos and 6 nations beans. Soaking over night definitely makes them more tender.

 

[Red Owl]

I tried another batch of over 1 year old beans- soaked 3 days. Still didn't cook right. MOHAWK friends. I have wanted to learn about succotash I believe the original had corn, beans, and meat- such as venison. You could live on it. My issues are that I want to duplicate the original type corn and beans.. "Indian" corn is multi-colored- I would have to grow my own. Was it used as is or turned into hominy? On the beans, what type of beans? Wild onions or herbs, etc. also added?
I grew up in New England. Thanksgiving always had sort of a historical aspect. Eat the food the pilgrims ate, along with the invited native Americans.
I've mentioned this before but will repeat- there is a good in Santa Fe that has "heirloom" beans, the types grown years ago and they have a big gala once a year but you have to be a VIP type to get invited- still knowing about these heirloom beans is of interest.

 

[tenngun]

Sometimes when I cook a dish with beans in it I'll take some of them and mash them to a paste, stir it back into the dish. Seems to thicken it up nicely.

I do that when making red beans and rice

 

[nhmoose]

I can older beans in my pressure canner. They will be soft when finished.

 

[SlidePicker]

I like to pressure cook dry beans. About 25 minutes at full pressure, long natural cool down, no soaking needed.

 

[david w]

My last bean meal was 15 bean soup with ham hock. And corn bread. And beer!

 

[bud in pa]

I have a tee shirt that I wear after eating beans. I love escarole and cannellini beans with hot pepper flakes, 15 bean soup chili with beans, beans of any type. The shirt reads " when I fart you will be the second one to know".

 

[SOLANCO]

My last bean meal was 15 bean soup with ham hock. And corn bread. And beer!

Every Christmas we get a ham from Colonel Newsome's. The bone and scraps go into 15 bean soup. If I could only ever have one thing to eat? Yessss.

 

[SOLANCO]

I have a tee shirt that I wear after eating beans. I love escarole and cannellini beans with hot pepper flakes, 15 bean soup chili with beans, beans of any type. The shirt reads " when I fart you will be the second one to know".

OMG YES! 'Scarole and white beans!!!!!!

 

[Whughett]

I’d given up on dried beans, even with over night soak they always seem to come out too hard. Old beans I’m told. Recently bought an Instapot so tried a baked bean recipe yesterday. Instapot is just an electric pressure cooker with a bunch of automatic settings. One such is beans. Overnight soak Great Northern bean, 30 minutes on high pressure, natural pressure release, hard beans, recycle 15 minutes, much better and very tasty sweet baked type beans.
But the recipe also used canned beans if desired. Think I’ll just stick to the cans and can openers. Don’t use enough dried beans to keep fresh in stock I guess.

 

[SlidePicker]

If you pressure cook them that way, you can skip the overnight soak. You won't know the difference. They likely recommend that just to cut down on noise from people objecting "But you HAVE to soak dry beans!" And the old tough beans cook just as tender as the fresh ones.

 

[waksupi]

Add some baking soda while cooking. It chases the little farts away.

 

[SlidePicker]

Why take the fun out of beans?