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Shelled Beans

A simple boiled bean dish seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Shelled Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the shelled beans.

  2. Cook in boiling salted water for 30 to 60 minutes.

  3. Season as you would string beans.

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

Shelled beans
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender and creamy as they cook through.

“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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