French Beans à la Francaise

Ingredients

• Boil the beans in salt and water
• add a quarter of a pound of fresh butter
• a little pounded pepper
• salt
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Boil beans in salt water, drain, and dry in a stew-pan.

2. 2

   Add butter, pepper, salt, and lemon juice, moving the pan without a spoon to avoid breaking the beans.

3. 3

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

French Beans a la Francaise. Boil the beans in salt and water over a large tire, that they may retain their colour. Drain theni and lay them in a stew-pan on the fire, to dry up all the Avater. When entirely dr}^ and quite hot, add to them a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, a little pounded pepper and salt, and the juice of a lemon

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