French Mode of Cooking French Beans

Ingredients

• A quart of French beans
• 3 oz fresh butter
• pepper and salt to taste
• the juice of 1/2 lemon

Instructions

1. Cut and boil the beans by the preceding recipe, and when tender, put them into a stewpan, and shake over the fire, to dry away the moisture from the beans.
2. When quite dry and hot, add the butter, pepper, salt, and lemon-juice;
3. keep moving the stewpan, without using a spoon, as that would break the beans; and when the butter is melted, and all is thoroughly hot, serve.
4. If the butter should not mix well, add a tablespoonful of gravy, and serve very quickly.