[at-l] How to cook beans & follow-up on fatbacking your feet

[rbenhameda@home.com (Rami)]

re: rehydrating beans

When I'm planning on beans for dinner, I start at breakfast.  I put the dry
beans in a gallon sized Ziploc bag, pour water in just to cover the beans,
and zip it shut after I'm finished with breakfast. (make sure it's one of
the really good kind that doesn't leak) Double bagging isn't a bad idea
either.  I pack the beans with my cooking gear and at the end of the day,
they're ready to go with very little cooking time.
I don't mind the extra weight of the water on the trail and in a *real*
pinch you can drink <ugh!> the bean water.


noble path
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Neal" <nealb@midlandstech.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: [at-l] How to cook beans & follow-up on fatbacking your feet


> 1) I love beans but hate lentils.  Guess they remind me too much of
"beggar
> lice" -- a weed & not an insect, but still a pest.  But I've never really
> tried them on a backpacking trip -- except for the freeze-dried or
> dehydrated versions.  Has anyone taken plain old dried beans and cooked
them
> on the trail?  And if so, how long did it take to "hydrate" them to the
> point where you could cook them?
>
> 2) Someone suggested that I try my "suggestion" about fatback as a "help"
> for feet.  Actually I did one time, but I was day-hiking and not really
> staying out on a long hike.  It did a good job of "greasing" the feet and
> soothing them: I had on my steel toe work boots -- DUMB IDEA 234  Makes
> sense that fatback would work since Lanoline is basically sheep fat or
oil.
> The left over fatback made good catfish bait, but I didn't use it to fry
up
> the cats or the hushpuppies.  But I don't think I want to grease my feet
on
> the AT; especially in the Smokies.  Of course "bobby-qued" bear tastes
good.
> It'd all be a question of who smelled who first and who was the hungriest.
>
> William, the Slick Turtle
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