To pickle KIDNEY BEANS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (9)
For pickling
Instructions (10)
  1. Get your beans when they are young and small.
  2. Put them into a strong salt and water for three days, stirring them up two or three times each day.
  3. Put them into a brass pan, with vine leaves both under and over them.
  4. Pour on the same water as they came out of.
  5. Cover them close, and set them over a very slow fire till they are a fine green.
  6. Put them into a hair sieve to drain.
  7. Make a pickle for them of white wine vinegar, or fine ale allegar.
  8. Boil the pickle five or six minutes, with a little mace, Jamaica pepper, long pepper, and a race or two of ginger sliced.
  9. Pour the hot pickle upon the kidney beans.
  10. Tie them down with a bladder.
Original Text
To pickle KIDNEY BEANS. GET your beans when they are young and small, then put them into a strong salt and water for three days, stir them up two or three times each day, then put them into a brass pan, with vine leaves both under and over them, pour on the same water as they came out of, cover them close, and set them over a very slow fire till they are a fine green, then put them into a hair sieve to drain, and make a pickle for them of white wine vinegar, or fine ale allegar, boil it five or six minutes, with a little mace, Jamaica pepper, long pepper, and a race or two of ginger sliced, then pour it hot upon the kidney beans, and tie them down with a bladder.
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