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
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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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