"l not -l" <
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> I'm going to make some this afternoon, using the method I remember my
> grandmother using. Of course, the last time I saw her do it I was about
> 11 years old and that was over 50 years ago. What I recall her doing
> was putting the green beans in a modest amount of boiling water, along
> with a quartered onion or two (sometimes new potatoes, other times not),
> in her biggest cast iron skillet. She seasoned with pepper and draped
> bacon slices over the green beans and put a lid on the skillet (maybe a
> small dutch oven) and simmered until the beans were tender-crisp. She
> then removed the green beans, onion and bacon to a serving bowl and
> boiled off most of the water remaining in the skillet; concentrated down
> to pretty much green bean flavored bacon fat; which was then added to
> and tossed with the green beans, bacon and onion in the serving bowl.
>
> I've probably gotten some part of it wrong; but, that's the way I
> remember it. I also recall that often as not my grandmother used
> jowl-bacon instead of regular bacon; jowl-bacon was my grandfather's
> favorite.
Jowl bacon? Shelia??????????
The recipe sounds good though and I will certainly try it:)) Thank you:) I
like the addition of the new potatoes etc. Was the bacon on top, raw?
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