French Beans

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (8)
for preserving beans
Instructions (11)
  1. Make a strong salt and water that will bear an egg.
  2. When it boils put in your French beans for five or six minutes.
  3. Lay them on a sieve.
  4. Put to your salt and water a little bay salt, and boil it ten minutes.
  5. Skim it well, and pour it into an earthen jar to cool and settle.
  6. Put your French beans into narrow topped jars.
  7. Pour your clean liquor over them.
  8. Tie them close down, that no air can get in.
  9. Keep them in a dry place.
  10. Steep them in plenty of spring water the night before you use them.
  11. Boil them in hard water.
Original Text
MAKE a strong salt and water that will bear an egg, and when it boils put in your French beans for five or six minutes, then lay them on a sieve, and put to your salt and water a little bay salt, and boil it ten minutes, skim it well, and pour it into an earthen jar to cool and settle, put your French beans into narrow topped jars, and pour your clean liquor over them; tie them close down, that no air can get in, and keep them in a dry place.—N. B. Steep them in plenty of spring water the night before you use them, and boil them in hard water.
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