String Beans (as cooked in Brittany)

Ingredients

• String and cut into dice i quart of nice young beans
• boil in salted water ; when tender, drain them and put in a saucepan with an ounce of butter
• a tablespoonful of finely chopped onion
• Add parsley
• pepper
• salt
• i cup of white broth or hot milk
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   String and cut beans, boil in salted water until tender.

2. 2

   Drain and sauté with butter and onion.

3. 3

   Add parsley, pepper, salt, broth or milk, and lemon juice.

4. 4

   Serve at once.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STRING BEANS (as cooked in Brittany). String and cut into dice i quart of nice young beans, boil in salted water ; when tender, drain them and put in a saucepan with an ounce of butter, a tablespoonful of finely chopped onion, and fry them lightly. Add parsley, pepper, and salt, i cup of white broth or hot milk, and the juice of a lemon

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