Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Dimitri wrote on 25 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking
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> > "biig" > wrote in message
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> > > Is anyone familiar with this brand of beans? I have a recipe
> > > that
> > > calls for 2 cans, rinsed and drained, and wonder if I can
> > > substitute cans of regular pork and beans or if they are like
> > > kidney beans in a liquid. Thanks for any help.....Sharon
> >
> > Caned pork and beans are in a heavily flavored sauce - canned GN
> > beans are in a simple but salty broth. Could you substitute the
> > beans - sure but the recipe will turn out differently.
> >
> > Dimitri
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> I thought Navy beans were another name for GN.

No, not the same bean, very similar but not synonymous. Navy beans are
smaller, pea beans are smaller still. I don't think you will readily
find canned great northern, navy, and pea beans specifically, typically
the can will indicate "small white beans". To purchase the specific
bean you pretty much need to go with dried. There are literally
thousands of different specific types of beans but only a handful,
perhaps ten at the most, are canned (mostly because most are just
differently colored/marked and the coloring/markings disappears when
cooked). And therein lies why I requested the specific recipe, may
have been a recipe for three bean salad, then any canned beans would
do... even no law says ya can't use more than three.

Just amazing that people requesting specific information about an
ingredient for a recipe don't think to mention the recipe... obviously
they *can't* think... that's why they don't know beans.

Sheldon