Cooked lentils may be used in place of haricot beans.
"New Vegetarian Dishes"
Mrs. Bowdich
Dissolve the butter in a saucepan, then place in it the haricot beans, onion sliced, mace, lemon peel, peppercorns and water.
"New Vegetarian Dishes"
Mrs. Bowdich
The guide-books tell one that Soissons is famous for its trade in haricot beans, and incidentally for the beans themselves, and for the great number of sieges which it has undergone, the last being that conducted by the Germans, who took possession in October, 1870, after a bombardment of three days.
"The Cathedrals of Northern France"
Francis Miltoun