Name: Lima Beans
Ingredients: perfectly sound lima beans; cold water; warm water

Lima Beans

Ingredients

perfectly sound lima beans
cold water
warm water

Directions

Pack and seal

Select perfectly sound lima beans and place them uncooked into jars.
Fill the jars with cold water.
Seal the jars as you would for asparagus, cooking them for the same length of time.

Prepare and fill the jars

String the beans, cut them into several pieces, and boil them in water for 15 minutes.
Prepare jars by filling them with warm water to heat them slightly.
Empty the jars and quickly fill them with the boiled beans, then seal them as you would for fruit.

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.