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I’m about to use a tremendously excessive number of exclamation points. But, with a little time spent reading up and a little extra precautions with cleanliness, I have a few shelves stocked for winter. Take young beans, gathered on a dry day, have a large stone jar ready, lay a layer of salt at the bottom, then a layer of beans, then salt and then beans, and so on till the jar is full; cover them with salt, and tie a coarse cloth over them, and a board on that, and then a weight to keep it close from all air; set them in a dry cellar, and when you use them, take some out and cover them close again; wash those you take out very clean, and let them lie in soft water twenty-four hours, shifting the water often; when you boil them do not put any salt in the water." "Lima, or Sugar Beans...
