Beans, French, Boiled
Ingredients
Directions
Trim the heads and tails of the beans and remove the string by cutting a thin strip from each side.
Cut the beans diagonally into pieces and place them in cold water as you cut.
Prepare a saucepan of boiling water.
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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