Name: To Preserve Beans for Winter
Ingredients: Young beans; Coarse sea salt

To Preserve Beans for Winter

Ingredients

Young beans
Coarse sea salt

Directions

Pick young beans.
Layer beans in a wooden keg, three inches deep.
Sprinkle a light layer of salt over the beans.
Repeat layering until the keg is nearly full.
Cover with a plate that fits inside the keg and place a weight on top.

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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To Preserve Beans for Winter