String-Bean Soup

Ingredients

• a pint of beans
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• two quarts of boiling water
• two teaspoonfuls of salt
• half a saltspoonful of white pepper
• the least dust of cayenne pepper

Method

1. 1

   Prepare beans by removing strings and cutting.

2. 2

   Boil in salted water until tender.

3. 3

   In a saucepan, melt butter and flour, then stir in boiling water.

4. 4

   Add beans, season, boil once, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two tablespoonfuls of butter to a smooth paste with one tablespoonful of flour; put the to- matoes over the fire in a soup-kettle with one quart of cold water, and let them heat gradually ; when they are hot, add another quart of cold water, and when this boils, put in the rice, a saltspoonful of pepper, and two teaspoonfuls of salt, and continue the boiling until the rice is tender, but not broken ; then stir in the paste of butter and flour, a salt- spoonful of soda, and a pint of milk, or enough to make the soup as thick as cream ; let the soup boil for a few moments, in order to thoroughly cook the flour, and then serve it at once. STRING-BEAN SOUP. Remove the strings from a pint of beans, cut them in small pieces, wash them in cold water, and then boil them in salted boihng water until they are tender enough to rub through a sieve with a potato-masher. After the beans are prepared in this way, put over the fire in a clean saucepan two tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, and stir them until they are smoothly blended ; then gradually stir in two quarts of boiling water ; when the white soup thus made is boiling, put in the beans, prepared as already directed ; sea- son the soup with two teaspoonfuls of salt, half a saltspoonful of white pepper, and the least dust of cayenne pepper

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