Green Beans

Ingredients

• string a quart or more of green beans
• a teaspoonful of salt
• add sweet butter
• cut some nicely toasted bread

Method

1. 1

   Prepare beans by cutting ends and washing.

2. 2

   Boil in salted water for 30-45 minutes.

3. 3

   Drain, add butter and pepper, and serve over toasted bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Green Beans. — Cut the bud and stem end off, and take the strings from the sides of stringed beans, cut them in inch lengths, wash them in cold water, then put them into a stew- pan of hot water, add a teaspoonful of salt, cover the stewpan and let them boil fast for half or three-quarters of an hour; take one up, if it will mash easily when pressed between the thumb and finger, they are done. Drain off the water, add sweet butter and pepper to taste, cut some nicely toasted bread in squares or diamonds, lay them on a dish, and serve the beans over. Green beans, when good, will be a bright color, and crisp, when broken. They should be fresh picked. Beans and Corn, Called Succotash. — Take the husks i ttOtrsJSHOLD. 181 and silk from a dozen ears of sweet corn, and with a sharp Knife cut the kernels from the cob, scrape gently what remains on the cob with the knife blade, string a quart or more of green beans

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