Le Ragoût de Fèves

Casserole of broad beans

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Jeanne Strang

Published 1991

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Another haymaking recipe is:

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg (3 lb) broad beans, in the pod
  • 1 tablespoon goose fat

Method

Pod the beans. If they are old or large, it is well worth the trouble of removing the inner skins.

Melt the fat in a pan which has a good fitting lid and cook the diced salt pork in it gently for 5 minutes or so. Add the beans, then the whole onions and a pinch of sugar and cook all together over a moderate flame for another 5 minutes. Stir in the flour and amalgamate well, add the wate