Name: Small Broad Beans
Ingredients: true broad beans (mature); savory herbs; water

Small Broad Beans

Ingredients

true broad beans (mature)
savory herbs
water

Directions

Gather true broad beans when they are mature and about the size of your thumb.
Shell the beans when they are small, about the size of your little finger, and place them in bottles.
Add a small bouquet of savory herbs to each bottle.
Seal the bottles quickly and place them in a water bath.
Boil the bottles for one hour.

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.