>Lorne "Idiot" Eppjmk GUESSES:
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>>When making a recipe that calls for canned beans, how much dried beans do you substitute. I prefer
>>to rehydrate my own beans when possible. If it says a 14.5 oz can, though, how much of the can is
>>liquid and how much is beans?
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>Dried beans will approximately double in volume when you rehydrate them, so the equivalent of 14.5
>oz of canned beans would be 7.25 oz of dried. That's *fluid ounces* of course, not weight ounces.
>I.e., use a measuring cup, not a scale
Idiot!
http://www.americanbean.org/Information/Bean%20Basics/Home.htm
Counting Beans
One 15-ounce can of beans = one and one-half cups cooked beans, drained One pound dry beans = six
cups cooked beans, drained. One pound dry beans = two cups dry beans. *One (1) cup dry beans = three
(3) cups cooked beans, *drained*.
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