String Beans Preserved

Ingredients

• String and cut the beans
• cook 20 minutes
• as much salicylic acid into each jar as you can hold on the point of a knife
• boil them 20 minutes

Method

1. 1

   String and slice the beans, then cook them in boiling water for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Fill clean glass jars with the hot beans, add salicylic acid, and fill with boiling water.

3. 3

   Close tightly and place in a kettle of warm water, boiling for 20 minutes.

4. 4

   After boiling, check the jars and store them in a cool place.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 327. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

String Beans^ Preseryed.— String and cut the beans slanir- ingly into fine slices, place them in a saucepan, cover with boiling water, cook 20 minutes; then place some clean glass jars on a double folded wet cloth and fill them with the hot beans, put as much salicylic acid into each jar as you can hold on the point of a knife ; fill the jars to overflowing with boiling water, close tightly, place in a large kettle of warm water with a cloth tied around each jar (the jars should be 2 inches under the water), boil them 20 minutes

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