Boiled Dried Beans
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the beans and soak them overnight in water.
In a pot, add the soaked beans and enough water to cover them.
Heat the pot slowly to the boiling point and cook for about 3 hours until done.
Do not parboil or discard the water.
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
- Dried beans
- Form the main body; their starch softens during long cooking, turning firm dried beans tender.
The step that matters
Heat the pot slowly to the boiling point. Gentle heating lets the beans soften evenly and helps keep their skins from splitting, while the long simmer lets starch gelatinize fully.
“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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