Brenda's Black Bean Soup

* Exported from MasterCook *

BRENDA'S BLACK BEAN SOUP

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Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups/stews

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3 c Dried black beans
2 Ham hocks
1 Bell pepper -- chopped
1 sm Onion -- chopped
1 Whole sour orange
-ÿÿtangerine
1 tb Vinegar *
1/2 c Oleo
2 tb Flour
Salt and pepper to taste

* (if you used a sweet orange or tangerine)

Put your beans in a soup pot and cover with water.
Boil, take off the fire and let sit til cool. Cook
onions and bell peppers in 1/2 the oleo until limp.
Add them and the ham hocks and orange to the cooled
beans; cover charitably with water.

Simmer until beans is soft (1 to 2 hours). Fish out
the orange right now, before it gets tore up. With the
rest of the oleo, brown the flour in a black frying
pan, then stir it into the beans. Brenda says: "Make
sure you got a soup, now. If you need to add some more
water, do it."

From "White Trash Cooking", Ernest Matthew
Mickler. Ten
Speed Press, 1986. ISBN 0-89815-189-9.

Posted by Stephen Ceideburg in Fidonet Cooking



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