Name: Lima Beans
Ingredients: perfectly sound lima beans; cold water

Lima Beans

Ingredients

perfectly sound lima beans
cold water

Directions

Select perfectly sound lima beans and place them uncooked into jars.
Fill the jars with cold water.
Seal the jars as you would for asparagus, cooking them for the same length of time.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.