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Butter Beans

From The household gas cookery book, 1900

Serves 4

Young beans take less time to cook.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter Beans. — Soak them all night in cold water. Wash them, and place them in a saucepan of cold water, salted to taste, and allow them to simmer gently until soft, which will be in about 2 or 3 hours (if the beans are young and fresh, they take less time than if they are old). When soft, strain, and add a little pepper, chopped parsley, 2 ozs. of butter, and the juice of a lemon

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