Butter Beans

Ingredients

• half a gill of cream
• one and a half ounces butter
• one even teaspoon salt
• half a teaspoon pepper
• a quart of cooked beans

Method

1. 1

   Cut off ends and strings from pods, cut beans lengthwise, and soak in cold water for half an hour.

2. 2

   Cover with boiling water and boil until tender, about three hours.

3. 3

   Drain, return to kettle, and add cream, butter, salt, and pepper.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BUTTER BEANS. With a knife cut off the ends of pods and strings from both sides, being very careful to remove every shred; cut every bean lengthwise, in two or three strips, and leave them for half an hour in cold water. Much more than cover them with boiling water; boil till perfectly tender. 120 Mother's Code Book. It is well to allow three hoars for boiling. Grain well, re- turn to kettle, and add a dressing of half a gill of cream, one and a half ounces butter, one even teaspoon salt, and half a teaspoon pepper. This is sufficient for a quart ox cooked beans

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