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Some Kitchen Kinks: Taste

At the end of this time add the beans and cook half an hour. Taste to see if more salt is required. A tablespoonful of butter added just before serving is a great acquisition to this dish.

Butter beans, the varieties of string beans which are pale yellow in color, may be cooked like the green string beans.

Scarlet Runner Beans. -In Great Britain the scarlet runner beans, which are raised in the United States almost exclusively as an ornamental plant, are highly prized for the table. The tender green pods are "whittled" into small sections (after stringing) and cooked in water until just tender. Like other green vegetables, they lose their color and delicate flavor if overcooked. These beans are at their best seasoned only with butter and salt.

Shelled Kidney Beans. All the varieties of this bean, when gathered while the seeds are still tender, may be cooked like the Lima beans. They may also be boiled with pork like green beans. It takes from one to two hours to cook kidney beans.

Stewed Shelled Beans. 1 quart shelled beans. 14 pound salt pork. 1 onion. 1/2 teaspoonful pepper. 1 tablespoonful flour. 1 quart boiling water.

Salt to taste.

Cut the pork in slices and fry it slowly ten minutes in a stewpan.

Add the onion, cut fine, and cook twenty minutes very slowly. Cover the beans with boiling water and boil ten minutes. Drain off the water.

Put the beans and flour in the stewpan with the pork and onion, and stir over the fire for five minutes.