To Bake Beans With Lemon
From A practical cook and text book for general use, 1896
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This recipe was extracted from A practical cook and text book for general use (1896) by Ellen Goodell Smith, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To Bake Beans With Lemon. Pick over and wash*, a quart of nice white beans. Soak them over night in . two quarts of cold water. In the morning drain and put them in a kettle, covering two inches deep with cold- water, and cook until the skins will crack when exposed to the air in a spoon ; pour them in an earthen bean pot, season with one table-spoonful vegetable butter, and one- half a lemon, cut in very thin slices
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