Name: Shelled Broad Beans
Ingredients: large shelled broad beans; small bouquet of savory

Shelled Broad Beans

Ingredients

large shelled broad beans
small bouquet of savory

Directions

Shell the broad beans, ensuring they are about ½ inch or more in length.
Place the shelled beans in bottles with a small bouquet of savory.
Submerge the bottles in a water bath and boil for 1.5 hours.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Broad beans: Forms the bulk of the dish and softens into a tender texture during the long boil.
Savory: Adds a peppery, aromatic flavor that infuses the beans in the bottles.

“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.