Name: How to Prepare Salted String Beans for Cooking
Ingredients: string beans; cold water

How to Prepare Salted String Beans for Cooking

Ingredients

string beans
cold water

Directions

Soak the string beans in cold water for 4 hours, changing the water once or twice.
Put the soaked beans in a pot with fresh cold water and warm them slowly.
When the water is about to boil, drain it and add fresh cold water.
Let the beans boil until tender and prepare as needed.

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.