NEVER Boil Your Beans Again — Try This Old French Trick Instead

Colette's book, The Old French Kitchen: https://oldfrenchkitchen.pages.dev/ Have your beans ever split into paste, or stayed hard in the middle no matter how long they cooked? Colette's grandmother never had that problem, and once her beans were cooking, she never let them boil. Every Saturday night, the women of her village carried heavy clay pots through the dark to the bakery. What happened to those pots behind the baker's iron door is the reason her beans came out whole, soft and swimming in a broth thick enough to cling to the bread. Follow her whole Saturday, from the garden to the rain barrel, down to the cellar and into the queue outside the bakery, where a forty-year argument with the neighbor was still going strong. Did anyone in your family carry a dish to the baker, a neighbor or a church supper? Tell Colette in the comments, along with your grandmother's name. #FrenchCooking #BeanRecipes #GrandmasKitchen