Lima Beans

Ingredients

• Lima beans
• rich milk
• butter
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Shell and soak dried Lima beans overnight, then cook until tender.

2. 2

   Season with milk, butter, pepper, and salt, and simmer before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 71. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lima beans ; let them stew in just enough water to cover them until tender, then season with butter, pepper, salt and a little milk; simmer together a few moments and serve. BOSTO^^ BAKED BEANS. Soak over night one pint of beans in clear water; in the morning parboil the beans, and at the same time, in another dish, parboil a piece of salt pork, about three inches long and wide and thick; drain off the water from the beans and pork ; put both together in a deep pan with the pork at top ; season with one tablespoon of molas^ses, and bake for several hours. Add a little water when they are put in to bake. YANKEE BAKED BEANS. Mrs. Higgins. Boil the beans until they begin to crack, with a pound or two of salt fat pork ; put the beans in the baking pan ; score the pork across the top, and settle in the middle ; 174 THE HOME COOK BOOK. add two tablespoons of sugar or molasses, and bake in a moderate oven six hours; they should be very moist when first put into the oven, or they will grow too dry in baking ; do not forget the sweetening if you want Yankee baked beans. LIMA BEANS. Shell and put into cold water and let them stand awhile ; then drain and put them into boiling water and cook until tender. Pour off the water and season with a little rich milk

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