French Beans
Ingredients
Directions
Bottle the beans
Pick the kidney beans and place them in bottles, filling all spaces.
Seal the bottles tightly.
Place the bottles in a water bath and heat for 1.5 hours.
Cut and heat larger beans
When the beans are larger, cut them lengthwise into 2 or 3 pieces.
For cut beans, heat in the water bath for 1 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Kidney beans
- The main ingredient, whose texture softens as the beans heat through in the water bath.
The step that matters
Seal the bottles tightly. A tight seal keeps air and spoilage microbes out while the beans heat. Filling every space in the bottle leaves less air to drive spoilage during processing.
“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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