Beans for Winter

Ingredients

• two table-spoons of salt
• a quart of beans
• a pint of cold well-water
• a piece of fresh pork

Method

1. 1

   String and cut the beans, boil for fifteen minutes, drain, and pack in a stone jar with layers of salt.

2. 2

   Pour over cold water, cover, and set away.

3. 3

   After a week, wash the cloth and repeat.

4. 4

   When ready to use, soak beans for half an hour, cook with pork or season with butter and pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 252. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BEANS FOR WINTER.—String fresh green beans, and cut down the sides till within an inch of the end, boil in water fifteen minutes, take out and drain; when cold, pack in astone jar, first putting two table-spoons of salt in the bot- tom, then a quart of beans, sprinkle with a table-spoon of salt, put in layer aber. a ie 4 - a “4 iti War ena ae ah Ny a . ih = MS Ne yay 2 ths EA Se oe ; BAT. ate ‘ Pa Ota ght, 1a a an Die SCOR Nag Pipialte Ni Sp) a She THE KITCHEN. 409 after layer in this way till the crock is full, pour over a pint (if not filled the first time, beans may be added until filled, putting in no more water after this pint) of cold well-water, put on a cloth with a plate and weight, set away in a cool place, and in about a week take off the cloth, wash it out in a little salt water (there will be a scum upon it), put back as before, and repeat operation at the end of, another week; then pack away, and when wanted for use, take out the quantity wanted and soak for half an hour, put in pot in cold water with a piece of fresh pork

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