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Pickles

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Pickles

Oven, in the book's wordsA very cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Layer beans in a container, sprinkling coarse sea salt between each layer.

  2. Cover the beans with a plate or wooden cover that fits inside the container.

  3. Place a heavy stone on top to weigh it down.

  4. Allow a pickle brine to form from the beans and salt.

  5. When ready to eat, cut, soak, and boil the beans as if they were fresh.

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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