Food historians believe Spanish ships took dried beans to Europe and the Portuguese took them to Africa.

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You just with less meat and meatless meals and dried beans and fresh vegetables, it's really possible to eat really well if you put the time into it.

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Made from ingredients that were often on hand and relatively nonperishable (such as cornmeal, bacon grease, dried beans, grits and fatback), the beans and cornbread supper was easy to prepare and could keep for several days.

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This should create approximately 300g of dried coffee beans to make around 50 cups of Cornish coffee.

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After harvesting, the cherries were pulped to remove the beans and are being slowly dried to reduce the moisture content to between 10-12%.

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Historically, Cretans have eaten only what their land produced: lots of fruit, vegetables, whole grains and pulses the dried seeds of legumes such as lentils, beans and peas.

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These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.

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Ask for butter beans up North and you're likely to get a beige-colored bean stew made from dried limas that are soaked, drained then simmered with seasonings.

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