Mexican String Beans

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons of fat
• 3 tablespoons of Victory flour
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• % teaspoon of pepper
• 2 cups (1 can) of beans
• 1 tablespoon of chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon of chopped DEL MONTE Canned Green Chile

Method

1. 1

   Melt fat, add flour, salt, and pepper, and allow to brown.

2. 2

   Add liquid from string beans and onion and chile, bring to boiling point.

3. 3

   Add beans and cook for 5 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bride's cook book (1915) by Edgar William Briggs, page 131. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MEXICAN STRING BEANS— Melt 2 tablespoons of fat, add 3 tablespoons of Victory flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, and % teaspoon of pepper and allow to brown. Add the liquid drained from a can of DEL MONTE Canned String Beans and 1 tablespoon each of chopped onion and chopped DEL MONTE Canned Green Chile and bring to the boiling point, stirring constantly. Add 2 cups (1 can) of beans and cook 5 minutes. DEL MONTE Canned Tomatoes and Tomato Sauce DEL MONTE Tomatoes are solid, clean, whole, vine-ripened fruit, grown from ^ specially propagated seed, and packed at the moment of perfection, with all their distinctive natural flavor. Packed in No. 1 tall, No. 2 and No. 2V^ tins. Recipes herein refer to the No. 2l^ can. DEL MONTE Tomato Sauce is made according to our own special recipe, from selected red-ripe tomatoes, fresh green peppers and other pure seasoning ingredients. Its uses in cooking are legion, adding zest and flavor to innumerable dishes at a great saving of time and trouble to the housewife. It is unexcelled on hot or cold meats, in soups, gravies, on macaroni, beans, rice and other vegetables. Also makes a delicious cocktail sauce. Packed in buffet size and No. 1 tall cans. Tomato Suggestions and Recipes Pour a part or a whole can of DEL MONTE Canned Tomatoes over the macaroni and cheese instead of milk, before putting it into the oven to bake. Add canned tomatoes to the stewed chicken about V2 hour before it is done. It will improve the chicken and also make delicious gravy. Pour canned hot seasoned tomatoes over the beef steak just before serving and omit a vegetable from the menu. 26A The Conservation Foods of Flavor Add left over canned tomatoes to any croquette mixture instead of other liquid, and a delicious flavor will be imparted to the croquettes. Add left over canned tomatoes to the stuffing for green peppers. The tomato flavor blends particularly well with the peppers. Pour a can of tomatoes over a whole cooked cauliflower, sprinkle with grated cheese and crumbs, and bake, for an unusual way of serving. Add any left over canned tomatoes to the fried onions about 10 minutes before they are done. Baste the baked stuffed fish with canned tomatoes and thicken and serve for a sauce. Add some left over canned tomatoes to the baked beans V2 hour before they have finished baking. A few canned tomatoes lend flavor to the boiled cabbage. Use a can of tomatoes in the fish chowder, and thereby impart to it an un- usually good flavor. JELLIED TOMATO SALAD— Boil liquid from 1 can of DEL MONTE Canned Tomatoes, 1 cup of water, 1 tablespoon of grated onion, 1 teaspoon of salt, % teaspoon of paprika, and 2 tablespoons of corn sirup or sugar for 5 minutes. Pour onto 1 envelope of softened gelatin and stir until it dissolves. Pour into wet mold and when firm serve on lettuce with mayonnaise. SCALLOPED TOMATOES— Arrange 2% cups (1 can) of DEL MONTE Canned Tomatoes in alternate layers with 1^^ cups of crumbs in a greased baking dish, sprinkle each layer with salt, pepper, and a little sugar or com sirup, dot the top layer of crumbs with bits of butter substitute, pour 1 tablespoon of Wor- cestershire sauce over the top, and bake 45 minutes. SPANISH OMELET— Melt 1 tablespoon of butter substitute and add 1 table- spoon of chopped onion

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