Salted Beans

Ingredients

• 1 or 2 bushels of young string beans
• 1 pint of salt for each bushel of beans

Method

1. 1

   String and cut the beans into thin slices.

2. 2

   Mix the beans with salt, pack them in a muslin bag, tie it, and place it in a butter tub.

3. 3

   Cover with salt water strong enough to float an egg and set in a cool place.

4. 4

   The beans will keep all winter if kept under the salt water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 326. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Salted Beans. — String 1 or 2 bushels of young string beans, cut them slantingly into thin slices. Have ready a bag of nn- bleached muslin, made like a pillowcase ; mix the beans with salt, allowing 1 pint of salt for each bushel of beans

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