Green Beans the Old Fashioned Way

Name: Green Beans the Old Fashioned Way
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 453.59 g green beans; 4.92 ml salt; 14.79 ml bacon grease; 29.58 ml butter

Submitted by puppitypup

"These flavorful beans can be made with fresh or frozen green beans."

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photo by FLKeysJen

Ready In:: 1hr 15mins
Ingredients:: 4
Serves:: 4

ingredients

453.59 g green beans
4.92 ml salt
14.79 ml bacon grease
29.58 ml butter

directions

Wash beans and snap them into 1 1/2" pieces, discarding ends.
Cover with water and add salt and bacon grease.
Cover and bring to a boil.
Turn down to simmer and continue cooking for about an hour.
Pour off water and add 2 T butter. Let sit with lid on for a minute for butter to melt, then toss beans a little to distribute butter.

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Reviews

Very yummy!! Taste old-fashioned, that is for sure! Very simple and very tasty! Did add some onion for personal taste.

iewe7726
This is a good recipe. But I would have like to have more taste of bacon. Instead of adding butter at the end, it could be great to add bacon grease (yeah I know more fat but more flavour). I used seasoning salt (without sodium). I didn't let them cook 1 hour. Maybe 30 minutes. Thanks Puppitypup. Made for Beverage tag.

Boomette
This is a delicious way to serve green beans! I used frozen green beans and they were very easy and very flavorful. I will be making them again.

CookingONTheSide
Talk about memories! My Grandfather used to make this way back when nothing was bad for you. The only difference was, he started the recipe by cooking a few bacon slices in a skillet, chopping them up and reserving for the end product. He followed the recipe pretty much the same, but at the end added in the chopped bacon. So delicious! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!

PetesNina
These Green beans are a southern delight! The bacon grease gives them a wonderful meaty flavor. I even crumbled up some of the bacon into the beans for added flavor. This recipe should be on every self respecting southerners table! It's soooo GOOOD!!!!! Thanks for posting a great recipe!

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