Name: Beans or Peas
Ingredients: tin cans with covers; fresh peas, shelled; water; saleratus (baking soda)

Beans or Peas

Ingredients

tin cans with covers
fresh peas, shelled
water
saleratus (baking soda)

Directions

Fill the tin cans with shelled peas prepared for cooking and solder the covers on.
Place the cans in a kettle and boil for 3 hours.
Remove the cans from the water and make a hole in each can with a nail to let the air out, then solder them up again.
Boil the cans for an additional 2 hours.
To use, soak the contents in warm water for a short time, then cook and season as you would fresh peas, adding a small amount of baking soda.

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.