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How to Prepare Salted String Beans for Cooking

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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How to Prepare Salted String Beans for Cooking

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the string beans in cold water for 4 hours, changing the water once or twice.

  2. Place the soaked beans in a pot with fresh cold water and heat slowly.

  3. When the water is about to boil, drain it and add fresh cold water.

  4. Boil the beans 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.

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