Recipe - Zydeco Green Beans

2 One fourth cup Water
Three fourths cup White Vinegar
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Crushed Mustard Seeds
4 md Garlic Cloves, Thinly Sliced
3 Bay Leaves
1 One half teaspoon Salt
1 One half teaspoon Tabasco Pepper Sauce
1 pound Trimmed Green Beans

Zydeco Green Beans is actually a redundancy. The exuberant music of
Louisiana's black Frenchspeaking Creoles is called zydeco, an idiomatic
phonetic version of les haricots, French for snap beans. Serve these green
beans as a relish, or as "stirrers" for Bloody Marys.
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In a large saucepan, stir together the water, vinegar, sugar, mustard
seeds, garlic, bay leaves, salt and Tabasco sauce. Bring to a boil, reduce
the heat, cover, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the beans. Cover and simmer
for 10 minutes, until tendercrisp. Arrange the beans in a shallow dish and
cover them completely with the vinegar mixture. Cover and refrigerate
overnight. Serve cold.

From: The Tabasco Cookbook.