PRESERVES
To preserve bush Beans fresh and good, till winter
Take half a bushel of beans, of a suitable size and age for eating green, string and break them, then put them into a cask, first sprinkling in salt, they a laying of beans, and so alternately till the cask is full, then add a weak brine so as to cover them; take out for use, and freshen twenty-four hours in water, often changing it; boil three hour in fresh water.
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