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To Put Up Beans

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Cut
  2. two tablespoons salt
  3. Water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Cut off the ends and boil the beans in salted water until about half tender;
  2. then drain and drop into boiling water, salted in the proportion of two tablespoons salt to each quart of water.
  3. Boil about ten minutes, then put in glass jars, cover well with the water in which they were boiled, and seal.
  4. The jar should stand in hot water while filling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Colander
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Credit

From The West Bend cook book (1915), printed page 413, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/westbendcookbook00lake

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.