How To Remedy A Plant Which has Dried Out

I live in region 9-10, in the South. I have my peanut plant rather fully grown, and leggy, in a clay pot, (about 10 in). I mistakenly left her out on the deck, getting quite quite abit of hot sun each day, for 2 days, while I was away. Now on my return, without her getting any water, and out in that very hot, beating sun' she is very dried out. I began by giving her a few drinks of water. Am I doing the right thing? Should I remove all the stems and leaves which have dried out?