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Bacon and Snaps

A dish of beans cooked with bacon, then served with the bacon on a platter and the beans arranged around it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Bacon and Snaps

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the beans in cold water for 2 hours before dinner.

Cook

  1. Put the beans in a pot with the bacon and bring to a boil.

  2. Cook until noon.

Serve

  1. Remove the bacon and place it on a platter.

  2. Skim the beans (snaps) out and arrange them around the bacon.

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

Beans
Provide the bulk of the dish and starch that softens and thickens the cooking liquid.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory, smoky flavor to the beans as they cook.

“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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