Beans and Similar Vegetables as Food 



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RECIPES FOR USING LEGUMES 



In general, the recipes given for dried beans apply also to dried peas 

 and lentils. In like manner the recipes for string beans may be adapted 

 to green peas and green lima beans. • 



Baked beans 



T pint navy beans 

 4 pints cold water 

 ^ teaspoonful soda 

 I teaspoonful mustard 

 Salt 



J pound salt pork 



1 tablespoonful minced onion 



2 tablespoonful s molasses 

 J teaspoonful paprika 



2 tablespoonfuls tomato sauce 



Fig. 27. — Baked beans 



Wash the beans and soak them overnight in the cold water, to which 

 the soda has been added. Cook them in the same water in which they 

 have been soaked, adding more if necessary, for about thirty minutes, 

 or until the skins slip off easily. Stir the beans until the skins rise to the 

 surface and can be skimmed off. Put the beans into an earthen crock or 

 bean jar; add the salt pork cut in small cubes, the onion, the molasses, 

 and the paprika. Cover the jar, and bake the beans slowly for six or 

 eight hours. Slow cooking develops the flavor. When the beans are 



