Haricot Beans à la Maître d’Hôtel

Ingredients

• Soak your beans for twenty-four hours
• warm them in a saucepan with butter
• seasoned with chopped parsley
• seasoned with chives
• seasoned with salt
• seasoned with pepper
• thicken the sauce with yolks of egg
• flavour with either a few drops of vinegar or lemon-juice

Method

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   Soak your beans for twenty-four hours (if not fresh ones), blanch and boil in boiling salt and water; drain, and when cold, warm them in a saucepan with butter seasoned with chopped parsley, chives, salt and pepper; thicken the sauce with yolks of egg mixed with stock or some of the liquor in which the beans were boiled, and flavour with either a few drops of vinegar or lemon-juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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