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Peas or Shelled Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Peas or Shelled Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the peas or beans and wash them.

  2. Pack the peas or beans into jars, shaking them down as you go.

  3. Place the jars over lukewarm water on a rack.

  4. Cover the jars and let them stand until the water boils.

  5. Fill each jar to overflowing with boiling salt water.

  6. Cook until the vegetables are tender.

  7. Adjust the rubbers and set the lids in place.

  8. Cook for ten minutes, then remove and tighten the lids.

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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