Thanks for those recipes Willravel!
Maleficent: A green grapey thing? But, not a grape? Ummm......
I thought the history on Boiled Peanuts went back to the Civil War, where I remember that or heard it, I don't know!
But, here it is:
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Boiled peanuts are green or raw nuts that are boiled in salty water for hours outdoors over a fire. The shells turn soggy, and the peanuts take on a fresh, legume flavor. A green peanut is not green in color, just freshly harvested. It takes ninety to a hundred days to grow peanuts for boiling, and they are available only during May through November throughout the southern states. One of the drawbacks of boiled peanuts is that they have a very short shelf life unless refrigerated or frozen. If you leave them out on the kitchen counter for 3 to 4 days, they become slimy and smelly!
No one knows just why southerners started boiling peanuts or who was the first to boil them. However, it is known that boiled peanuts have been a southern institution since at least the Civil War (1861-1865), when Union General William T. Sherman (1820-1891) led his troops on their march through Georgia. As a result of General Sherman's campaign in Georgia, the Confederacy was split in two and deprived of much needed supplies.
Contemporary writings are full of complaints of lack of bread and meat. The great concern of the Confederate government was to feed the army. When troops of the Confederacy were without food, peanuts were an important nutritional source. Since cooking facilities were scarce, soldiers roasted the peanuts over campfires or boiled them. It seems to be lost in history as to who came up with the idea of adding salt to the peanuts when boiling them. What they were doing by boiling in salt, is an ancient preservation technique. It was discovered that these boiled peanuts would keep and not spoil in their kits for up to seven day. The salt works as a preservative, and the boiling kills impurities and bacteria. This produced a high protein ration that could be carried by the soldier. As salt was also scarce during the Civil War, history doesn't tell us how the confederate soldiers had enough salt to use, unless salt meat, a large part of the army ration, was used somehow.
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If you want to read more:
http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/H...utsHistory.htm
Oh yeah........those that said the boiled peanut was slimy.
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If you leave them out on the kitchen counter for 3 to 4 days, they become slimy and smelly!
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Ewwwwww............come on guys........don't be doin' that!!! GROSS!
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Originally Posted by maleficent
scuppernongs = Green grapey looking thing...
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I looked them up!!!
http://overstated.net/03/08/25-thing...n-scuppernongs
I have never heard them called that! I was going to ask if they were muscadine grapes.
I like the purple ones but the green ones are the bomb!! Very good. My grandmother made jelly with them. And blackberry jelly!
Yes, I know those and love those grapes, but I've NEVER heard them called that and I'm pretty darn southern. Oh well........learn something new everyday!