Tips on cooking Beans



I had often wondered why Mom always added a rablespoon of sugar to a pot of beans. She did it because her Mom, her Aunts and cousins did. I mean is a Tablespoo. Of sugar ieven going to be noticed in the large pot of beans?  The answer to that is, no.  But I did find out a couple of years ago, that for some reason sugar greatly reduces the enzyme that causes the gas that everyone complains about.  


Who else remembers this childhood ditties

Beans, beans, the musical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot the better you feel.
Let's eat beans for every meal.

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