To keep Green Pease, Beans, &c. and Fruits, fresh and good till Christmas

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (10)

For preserving

Green Pease ↝ Green peas, raw [Other starchy vegetables]
Beans ↝ Yardlong bean, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
Fruits ↝ Kiwi fruit, raw [Other fruits and fruit salads]
Kidney beans ↝ Kidney beans, NFS [Beans, peas, legumes]
pease
beans ↝ Yardlong bean, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
fine writing sand
flowers ↝ Sesbania flower, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]

Equipment

well-glazed earthen or stone pots quite new, that have not been laid in water
leather

Instructions (10)

Gather all your things on a fine clear day, in the increase of the moon.
Take well-glazed earthen or stone pots quite new, that have not been laid in water.
Wipe them clean.
Lay in your fruit very carefully, and take great care none is bruised or damaged, nor too ripe, but just in their prime.
Stop down the jar close, and pitch it, and tie leather over.
Kidney beans may be done the same manner.
Bury them two feet deep in the earth, and keep them there till you have occasion for them.
Do pease and beans the same way, only keep them in the pods, and don't let your pease be either too young or too old; the one will run to water, and the other the worm will eat.
As to the two latter, lay a layer of fine writing sand, and a layer of pods, and so on till full: the rest as above.
You may keep flowers the same way.

Original Text

To keep Green Pease, Beans, &c. and Fruits, fresh and good till Christmas.
Gather all your things on a fine clear day, in the increase of the moon; take well-glazed earthen or stone pots quite new, that have not been laid in water, wipe them clean, lay in your fruit very carefully, and take great care none is bruised or damaged, nor too ripe, but just in their prime; stop down the jar close, and pitch it, and tie leather over. Kidney beans may be done the same manner; bury them two feet deep in the earth, and keep them there till you have occasion for them. Do pease and beans the same way, only keep them in the pods, and don't let your pease be either too young or too old; the one will run to water, and the other the worm will eat; as to the two latter, lay a layer of fine writing sand, and a layer of pods, and so on till full: the rest as above. You may keep flowers the same way.

Notes

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