Name: String or Snap Beans
Ingredients: string beans; ½ teaspoon baking soda; water

String or Snap Beans

Ingredients

string beans
½ teaspoon baking soda
water

Directions

Wash the string beans and remove the stem, tip, and strings.
Cut or break the beans into 1-inch pieces.
Blanch the beans in boiling water for 6 to 10 minutes, adding baking soda to the water.
Remove the beans and dry them between two towels or in the sun.
Dry young beans for 2 hours and more mature beans for 3 hours, starting at 110°F and gradually raising to 145°F.

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.