Black Valentine Beans

Black Valentine Beans are a bush variety of bean, but because the plant grows up 18 inches (45 cm) tall, some like to grow it as a pole variety.

Its 6 inch (15 cm) long pods are stringless, smooth and fuzz-free.

Instead, the dark blackish-green beans are shaped like kidney beans, with glossy skin.

Black Valentine Beans have a rich flavour and a meaty texture.

Black Valentine Beans are 50 to 80 days from seed, depending on where you are, and the plant is pick and come again. Black Valentine Beans can be used fresh as green beans, or dried.

After cooking, the dried beans turn a purplish colour.

Black Valentine Beans are good in soups and salads.

Simmer unsoaked ones for 1 1/2 hours. Pressure cook soaked beans for 20 to 25 minutes.Black Beans, Red Kidney Beans1 part uncooked = 2 1/2 parts cooked

Black Valentine Beans were being grown in America by the 1850s, and in Upper Canada by the 1860s.

Sometimes called "Henderson's Black Valentine" after the seed company, Peter Henderson & Co., that introduced it commercially in 1897.

Also called:

Andrew Kent Beans, Beurre de Rocquencourt Beans, Black Adzuki Beans, Black Valentine Beans, Bolita Beans, Brown Dutch Beans, Brown Speckled Cow Beans, Calypso Beans, Coco Black Beans, Coco Rubico Beans, Coco White Beans, Deuil Fin Precoce Beans, Fin de Bagnols Beans, Flambeau Beans, Green Beans, Héritage Doré Beans, Hidatsa Shield Figure Beans, Hopi Black Beans, Hutterite Soup Beans, Ireland Creek Annie Beans, Lingot Beans, Marfax Beans, Marrow Beans, Mexican Red Beans, Money Beans, Mrociumere Beans, Pawnee Beans, Pepa de Zapallo Beans, Raquel Beans, Santa Maria Pinquitos Beans, Sequoia Beans, Steuben Yellow Beans, Swedish Brown Beans, Tarahumara Capirame Beans, Tarahumara Kakamira Beans, Tarahumara Norteno Beans, Taylor's Dwarf Horticultural Beans, Thibodeau du Comté Beauce Beans, Tongues of Fire Beans, Ukrainian Comrades Beans, Vermont Cranberry Beans, Zebra Beans, Zert Beans, Zuni Shalako Beans

Baked Beans, Chana Dal, Cowpeas, Dry Beans, Flageolet Beans, French Fillet Beans, Lima Beans, Mung Beans, Pole Beans, Red Kidney Beans, Runner Beans, Shelling Beans, Soybeans, Wax Beans

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