Re: [at-l] Important announcement from the Pea & Lentil Council

>In a message dated 11/4/99 6:51:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>lwbooher@evansville.net writes:
>
>> This brings up a question that I've had.  If I break up dried beans
before I
>>  leave home, you know, like make each regular Navy bean 6 pieces, will
they
>>  soak and cook up OK on the trail.  I thought breaking them up would make
>>  them soak better and cook faster, but I'm afraid of the end
result---mush?
>>  Leslie
>
>
>You need to go down to your local pharmacy and buy yourself one of those
pill
>splitters.  Then, you could simply separate the halves of the bean, and
place
>the individual halves in the pill splitter.  Pop! and you have yourself two
>perfect bean quarters, that is, if you were careful enough when you put it
in
>the pill splitter.  Then, heck, I bet it wouldn't take more'n  a couple
>hours, and you'd have yourself enough for a meal.   Then, on the trail,
you'd
>have even more fun:
>
>"Damn, Leslie, how'd you get them beans looking like that?  Hey, Joe! Come
>over here and look at Leslie's beans.  Just look at them.  I ain't never
seen
>nothin like it."
>
>"Whooowhee, would ya jest look at that!"  "That reminds me.  Bob, you feed
>them dogs 'fore we left?"
>
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