Buttered String Beans

Ingredients

• Remove the strings and cut beans
• cook in boiling water from one to three hours
• adding salt the last half hour
• dress with melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Remove strings, cut beans, wash, and cook in boiling water.

2. 2

   Drain and reheat in White Sauce or dress with melted butter, salt, and pepper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buttered String Beans Cabbage Salad Apple Cake with Lemon Sauce Boiled Coffee CHICKEN CONSOMME WITH MACARONI RINGS AND PIMENTOS 2 quarts Chicken Consomme. 3^ cup cooked macaroni. 1 tablespoon pimentos. Process: Cook macaroni in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and pour over one cup cold water. With a sharp knife cut in thin rings. Drain pimentos from the liquor in can, dry on a crash towel. Cut in strips, then cut strips in small diamonds. Add both to Consomme, heat to boiling point and serve in cups. BREAST OF LAMB STUFFED AND ROASTED Peel off the outer skin from a breast of lamb, remove bones, stuff, (see Page 36), shape in a compact roll and sew. Spread with salt pork fat, sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Sear the surface over quickly in hot salt pork fat, then place in the oven. Let cook one hour and a half, basting often with fat in pan. Serve with French Fried Sweet Potatoes and Currant Jelly Sauce. Garnish meat with sprays of fresh mint. 36 52 Sunday Dinners '^stZs Second Sunday CURRANT JELLY SAUCE To Brown Sauce (for recipe see Page 82) add one-half cup black or red currant jelly whipped with a fork, one teaspoon lemon juice and a few gratings of onion. Heat to boiling point, boil three minutes and serve in sauce boat. Onion may be omitted. STUFFING FOR LAMB 2 cups soft bread ci ambs. 1 tablespoon poultry seasoning. J^ cup butter. 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion. li cup hot water. J^ tablespoon finely chopped parsley. Salt, Pepper. Process: Melt butter in hot water, add to bread crumbs, toss lightly with a fork. Add remaining ingredients in the order given. If desired moister, increase the quantity of hot water. SWEET POTATOES, SOUTHERN STYLE Peel cold, boiled sweet potatoes and cut lengthwise in slices one- half inch thick. Arrange in layers in a well-greased quart baking dish. Cover each layer generously with brown sugar and dots of butter, a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Continue until dish is full. Add one cup hot water and bake in hot oven until liquor is "syrupy" and potatoes are brown on top. BUTTERED STRING BEANS Remove the strings and cut beans diagonally in one-half inch pieces. Wash and cook in boiling water from one to three hours, adding salt the last half hour of cooking. Drain and reheat in White Sauce or dress with melted butter

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