Naked Children In The Grass
By: Yuna Wu
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




1 pound Baby Lima Beans
1 tablespoon Salt
1 pound x to 1 ½  French cut green beans
1/4 cup butter
3 teaspoons sugar
salt to taste

Preparation

1 Pick over lima beans removing broken or damaged beans.  2 Rinse with cool water. Cover with 2 inches or more water and soak for 48 hours, changing the water at least twice a day and rinsing the beans thoroughly. The last soaking water should have 1 Tablespoon of salt added to the water.  3 Drain and rinse beans and put in large covered pot. Cook over high heat for 15 minutes.  4 Skim and lower heat. Cook over low heat, checking tenderness of beans after 20 minutes, stirring beans well, then each 10 minutes and stirring beans well.  5 When beans are tender but still hold their shape, add fresh or frozen green beans and cook just until green beans are hot.  6 Stir in butter and add desired amount of sugar.  Beans should not taste sweet like baked beans.  7 Add salt to taste. I rarely add the butter and never add the sugar and this still tastes wonderful.

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Dutch Dish from Mary de Jong