Dried White Haricot Beans

Ingredients

• one pound of dried haricot beans
• three quarts of cold water
• a tablespoonful of salt
• three ounces of fresh butter
• a teaspoonful of chopped parsley
• seasoned with salt
• seasoned with pepper
• the liquor of the beans

Method

1. 1

   Soak the beans in cold water for twelve hours, then pick out the imperfect ones.

2. 2

   Boil the good beans in water with salt until tender.

3. 3

   Drain, return to the pan with butter, parsley, salt, pepper, and a little broth; toss until the butter is melted, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 167. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED WHITE HARICOT BEANS. Soak one pound of dried haricot beans, in plenty of cold water, for about twelve hours previous to cooking, then pick out all the imperfect ones and throw the best into a stewpan with three quarts of cold water and a table- spoonful of salt Boil with the stewpan covered till ten- der, drain the water through a colander and return the beans in the pan, with three ounces of fresh butter and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley; season with salt and pepper, and moisten with a little broth or the liquor of the beans ; toss the beans till the butter is melted, and serve. 774. HARICOT BEANS, HOUSEWIFE STYLE. Soak a pound of haricot beans as in No. 773, cook them in salt water for a quarter of an hour, and drain in the usual way. In the meantime have ready hot in a stewpan a pint of mutton gravy, seasoned with salt

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