PRESERVING TRENCH BEANS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 3

PRESERVING TRENCH BEANS.

A 'still . ; better way of preserving■•■ French beans'than the one 'already, published has been kindly handed, in by an authority on the matter. There are three special kinds which everybody , should go in from English .seed—the Scarlet Emperor, which .grows to fifteen inches'in length; the Giant, a shorter, fatter kind; and the Titan, a particularly prolific plant." However, failing these,;the same treatment can successfully .bo applied, to those one happens to have growing.. ■Bβ careful to pull.tho beans for preserving in dry weather/ wipe them and do not. cut at all, not even the ends. Have ready :a. large • earthenware.': crock,. widemouthed,'and of,the same shapo all the-way down. Place .a good- layer of dairy. salt enough to cover the bottom of it, arid tlien a layer of beans of abouf.two inches; Add another-layer of. salt and another of beans and so on alternately .till the crock is full. 1 lace-a-tile on the top, or anything else clean and /heavy, ■■W, that tho beans are pushed, quite, below'the liquid'that is soon formed by tho action of .the salt on the beans and there ono has them ready for use in the winter months. : When/about to use them take out a sufficient, quantity for , immediate use, soak.them .in a basin of cold-water for twelve hours, and then boil as usual. It is totter. to ; pour off .the first:, water, after a wiiile, as the beans iave become salt. ■