To Preserve Vegetables for Winter Use

Ingredients

• green string beans
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Pick young green string beans and put a layer three inches deep in a small wooden keg or half barrel; sprinkle in salt an inch deep, then put another layer of beans, then salt, and beans and salt in alternate layers until you have enough.

2. 2

   Let the last be salt; cover with a piece of board and place a heavy weight upon it to make brine.

3. 3

   When wanted for use, soak them overnight in plenty of water, changing it once or twice until the salt is out, then cut and boil as when fresh.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

O PRESERVE VEGETABLES FOR WIN- TER USE. Green string beans mast be picked when yoang; put a layer three inches deep in a small wooden keg or half bar- rel ; sprinkle in salt

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