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With sweet peas growin 'up the sides, and in back a patch for vegetables -- string-beans and spinach and radishes, cucumbers and
CHAPTER 13 2010
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Try the fish croquette, the coconaut string-beans and one of my all-time favorite a delicious chicken masala.
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I think a hundred rows of string-beans will be enough to start with, Mr. Farrell.
Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White
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Add some cold boiled string-beans, some cold boiled asparagus tips, two tablespoons of cold cooked peas, one cold boiled carrot, and some celery.
Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola
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Fill the centre with a salad composed of cucumber cut into dice, peas, string-beans cooked until tender (for this purpose the canned French string-beans serve admirably, being beautifully cut ready).
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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There were rows and rows of peas, and rows and rows of string-beans and shell-beans, and some corn and turnips and carrots, and, also, a great many tomato plants.
Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White
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Cut off the ends and string some young string-beans.
Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola
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At our first arrival, we found green peas ready for gathering, and these, instead of the string-beans, were the first offering of the garden to our board.
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Take some young string-beans, cut off the ends, and string them.
Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola
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Still, it was a very pleasant moment when I gathered the first string-beans, which were the earliest esculent that the garden contributed to our table.
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