Name: Lima or Butter Beans
Ingredients: Lima or butter beans; Salt; Butter

Lima or Butter Beans

Ingredients

Lima or butter beans
Salt
Butter

Directions

Prepare

Soak the beans in saltwater for 30 minutes.
Drain and place the beans in cold water.

Cook and serve

Boil the beans until tender.
Serve hot, topped with butter.

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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What each ingredient does

Lima or butter beans: Provide the main body and starchy, creamy texture of the dish.
Butter: Adds richness and fat, giving flavour and moisture when served on the hot beans.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.