Somebody posted about eating these and now I want some! They were a
favorite food when I was a kid but I haven't seen any here in a very long
time.

A few years ago I got some Allen's field peas with snaps, thinking they
would be the same but they were not. Not bad. Just not the same.

So I did look online and found some for sale but most likely the cost would
be prohibitive in the shipping department. But...

I noticed that Libby's has some that are green beans and pintos. Could it
be this simple? I didn't think the Shelly part was a pinto. I always
thought that it was the mature seed of a green bean. At least that's what
my mom always told me. And I tried looking online but couldn't find an
answer for sure. I did see at a gardening forum that some people grow
specific beans for the Shellies and it was green beans they were growing.
They also said that at certain times of the year, they could get them at the
grocery store.

So what exactly is a Shelly? Is it something I could buy in the dried form?

Thanks!

On Dec 30, 3:58*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> Somebody posted about eating these and now I want some! *They were a
> favorite food when I was a kid but I haven't seen any here in a very long
> time.
>
> A few years ago I got some Allen's field peas with snaps, thinking they
> would be the same but they were not. *Not bad. *Just not the same.
>
> So I did look online and found some for sale but most likely the cost would
> be prohibitive in the shipping department. *But...
>
> I noticed that Libby's has some that are green beans and pintos. *Could it
> be this simple? *I didn't think the Shelly part was a pinto. *I always
> thought that it was the mature seed of a green bean. *At least that's what
> my mom always told me. *And I tried looking online but couldn't find an
> answer for sure. *I did see at a gardening forum that some people grow
> specific beans for the Shellies and it was green beans they were growing.
> They also said that at certain times of the year, they could get them at the
> grocery store.
>
> So what exactly is a Shelly? *Is it something I could buy in the dried form?
>
> Thanks!

Shelly beans are the beans from green bean varieties that are left to
mature, either intentionally or accidentally, on the vine. Most any
green been can become a shelly bean when mature. The slender green
bean pod gets fat when the seeds mature. These are then shelled out
of the pod and cooked. You can shell them 'green' or you can pick
the dried pods from the stalk and shell the beans out and cook them
from a drier state. You also can shell the dry beans and put them in
containers and have dried beans all winter.

In the South, especially around where I grew up, shelly beans were
usually what they called 'half runners', which meant they were in
between a bush bean and a pole bean. We grew both bush and pole or
cornstalk beans. The favorite pole bean was KY Wonder and what we
called purple beans which were an Italian variety.

Most shelly beans were left on the stalk to dry to put up and cooked
from the dried state with a piece of fatback or ham hock.

We would can beans every summer and in some we put the shellies in
with the green beans, especially the wide bodied purple bean. These
beans have "strings", unlike the modern hybrid-to-death beans which
have no strings and no taste. Those old timey beans had FLAVOR.

If you have a garden you can still order some of these old heirloom
Southern beans. They are worth growing just for the incredible
flavor.

http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beans.html

On Dec 30, 2:18*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:

>
> If you have a garden you can still order some of these old heirloom
> Southern beans. * They are worth growing just for the incredible
> flavor.
>
> http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beans.html

You can see a picture of the KY Wonder and the Purple Pod bean here.

http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beanimages.html

ImStillMags wrote:
> On Dec 30, 3:58 am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> Somebody posted about eating these and now I want some! They were a
>> favorite food when I was a kid but I haven't seen any here in a very
>> long time.
>>
>> A few years ago I got some Allen's field peas with snaps, thinking
>> they would be the same but they were not. Not bad. Just not the same.
>>
>> So I did look online and found some for sale but most likely the
>> cost would be prohibitive in the shipping department. But...
>>
>> I noticed that Libby's has some that are green beans and pintos.
>> Could it be this simple? I didn't think the Shelly part was a pinto.
>> I always thought that it was the mature seed of a green bean. At
>> least that's what my mom always told me. And I tried looking online
>> but couldn't find an answer for sure. I did see at a gardening forum
>> that some people grow specific beans for the Shellies and it was
>> green beans they were growing. They also said that at certain times
>> of the year, they could get them at the grocery store.
>>
>> So what exactly is a Shelly? Is it something I could buy in the
>> dried form?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Shelly beans are the beans from green bean varieties that are left to
> mature, either intentionally or accidentally, on the vine. Most any
> green been can become a shelly bean when mature. The slender green
> bean pod gets fat when the seeds mature. These are then shelled out
> of the pod and cooked. You can shell them 'green' or you can pick
> the dried pods from the stalk and shell the beans out and cook them
> from a drier state. You also can shell the dry beans and put them in
> containers and have dried beans all winter.
>
> In the South, especially around where I grew up, shelly beans were
> usually what they called 'half runners', which meant they were in
> between a bush bean and a pole bean. We grew both bush and pole or
> cornstalk beans. The favorite pole bean was KY Wonder and what we
> called purple beans which were an Italian variety.
>
> Most shelly beans were left on the stalk to dry to put up and cooked
> from the dried state with a piece of fatback or ham hock.
>
> We would can beans every summer and in some we put the shellies in
> with the green beans, especially the wide bodied purple bean. These
> beans have "strings", unlike the modern hybrid-to-death beans which
> have no strings and no taste. Those old timey beans had FLAVOR.
>
> If you have a garden you can still order some of these old heirloom
> Southern beans. They are worth growing just for the incredible
> flavor.
>
> http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beans.html

Nope. No garden.

ImStillMags wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2:18 pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
>
>>
>> If you have a garden you can still order some of these old heirloom
>> Southern beans. They are worth growing just for the incredible
>> flavor.
>>
>> http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beans.html
>
> You can see a picture of the KY Wonder and the Purple Pod bean here.
>
> http://www.wrightsdaylily.com/beanimages.html

Thanks!