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Broad Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Broad Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the broad beans.

  2. Cook the beans in boiling water for 5 minutes.

  3. Drain and plunge the beans into cold water.

  4. Pack the beans into clean glass jars.

  5. Fill the jars with cold water and add a little salt.

  6. Adjust the rubber and lid, then partially tighten.

  7. Place the jars in a sterilizer and boil for 2 hours.

  8. The next day, boil the jars again for 2 hours.

  9. 10 minutes before the time expires, screw down the lids tightly or clamp down the spring.

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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