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Dried Beans

A method for preparing dried beans by soaking, boiling, and seasoning with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Dried Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Soak

  1. Soak the beans overnight in warm water.

  2. Drain and soak again in fresh warm water.

Cook

  1. Boil the beans in soft water for 2 hours, changing the water at least once.

  2. Add salt the second time.

Serve

  1. Drain and serve as you would fresh 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
Absorb water during soaking and cooking, softening into tender, creamy beans.

“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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