Stewed Lima Beans

Ingredients

• a quart of beans
• two teaspoonfuls of salt
• one of pepper
• one of sugar
• a good rich brown gravy
• some small onions
• chives
• parsley

Method

1. 1

   Simmer onions, chives, and parsley in gravy for 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Add beans seasoned with salt, pepper, and sugar, and stir gently until absorbed.

3. 3

   Serve after 10 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 457. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

parsley sauce over them. Place the ham on the beans. Time, fifteen to twenty minutes to boil. Beans, Lima, Mashed. — This is the only way in which old beans may be cooked to advantage. They should be first boiled in the ordinary way fully half an hour, by which time the skins will have burst, and they may be easily removed. Mash them with the back of a wooden spoon until quite smooth, then put them back into the stewpan with a little sugar, butter, pepper, and salt. Warm up, and then press them into a buttered mould. Beans, Lima Beans, String VEGETABLES The mould should be hot and kept hot until ready to serve ; then turn out. Beans, Lima, a la Poulette. — Boil one quart of young, broad beans over a quick fire until nearly done ; then put them into a stewpan with sweet herbs very finely cut, a little sugar, half a pint of stock ; pepper and salt at discretion. Before beginning to stew, see that the beans are well drained from the water in which they were boiled. Stew until half the liq- uor is absorbed, and just as they are on the point of simmering beat up the yolk of an egg with a quarter of a pint of cream, and add it to them. Time, ten minutes to boil; fifteen to stew. Beans, Lima, to Stew. — Have ready a good rich brown gravy. Cut up some small onions, chives, and parsley; throw them into the gravy and simmer for ten minutes before the beans are pxit in. Sprinkle a quart of beans with two teaspoonfuls of salt, one of pepper, and one of sug- ar

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