String Bean Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and cook
Remove the strings from the string beans.
Boil the beans in salted water for three hours.
Drain and cool the beans.
Dress and chill
Mix the beans with salad dressing.
Chill in the refrigerator for one hour.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- String beans
- Form the bulk of the salad and provide its main texture.
- Salad dressing
- Adds moisture and flavour that coats the cooked beans.
The step that matters
Boil the beans in salted water for three hours. Three hours of boiling is far longer than most green beans need, so they can turn very soft and lose their bright colour and crisp bite. Checking for tenderness earlier helps keep the texture firm.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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