Haricot Beans and Bacon

Ingredients

• 1 pint Haricot Beans
• 1 teaspoonful Parsley
• \ lb. Bacon
• Pepper and Salt

Method

1. 1

   Soak the haricot beans and boil them by directions already given.

2. 2

   Rub them through a wire sieve.

3. 3

   The bacon should be in thin rashers and very fat.

4. 4

   Cook it carefully in a small clean frying-pan, and as the fat runs from it, pour it on the beans.

5. 5

   Mash them up with this and a little pepper and salt, and put them into a hot dish.

6. 6

   Sprinkle over with parsley and lay the bacon rashers on top.

7. 7

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of living in Australia (1893) by Philip E. Muskett, page 216. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful Parsley- .1 ici. Lemon Juice Total Cost— 2id Time- -Half an Hour Wash the potatoes and put them into boiling salt and water, and boil for ten minutes. Take up, peel and cut thenfin half. Melt the butter in a saucepan, and when quite hot, put in the potatoes and toss over the fire. Sprinkle over the parsley, pepper, salt, and a few drops of lemon juice ; cover down and cook gently till the potatoes are soft but not broken. Put into a hot dish and serve. POTATO PUFF. \ lb. Cold Potatoes . . . . \d. 2 Eggs 2d. 1 oz. Butter 1 gill Milk Total Qosi—id. Time— Half an Hour. '\\d. Mash the potatoes, beat the butter to a cream, then beat in the eggs, pepper, salt, and milk. Stir up the potatoes, pour into a buttered pie-dish, and bake for about haK an hour. Serve hot. POTATOES STUFFED. 6 Large Potatoes . . . .2d. \ lb. Cold Meat \d. \ gill Gravy or Sauce . . • \ i t Pepper, Salt, and Parsley . . .j '^^' Total Cost— 3(?. Time— One Hour and a Half. Wash and scrub the potatoes, and bake them in the oven till quite done. Cut them in half so that they will stand 860 THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA. nicely. Scoop out the inside, and mix the potato meal with some butter, pepper, and salt. ]\Iake a little savoury meat by directions given for mince, and nearly fill the potato skins with this. Put some of the .potato on top, making it look as rough and rocky as possible. Stand in the oven till quite hot, and serve. HARICOT BEANS AND BACON. 1 pint Haricot Beans .... 2d. 1 tea.spoonful Parsley . \ lb. Bacon Pepper and Salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.