Sopa De Entulho (rubble Soup)

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Title: SOPA DE ENTULHO (RUBBLE SOUP)
Categories: Soups
Yield: 6 servings

1 lb Dry red beans
1 lg Onion
2 Cloves
2 Turnips
3 Carrots
3 md Potatoes
4 pt Water
1 sl Pumpkin
4 oz Unsmoked bacon -OR-
4 ts Olive oil
1/2 White Cabbage
Wine vinegar
Salt

Soak the beans for a few hours; fill a large pan with 4 pt cold water,
press the cloves into the onion, as if their were pins, and add to the pan
with the beans. (resist the temptation to use canned beans; it's worth the
extra trouble). Add the bacon cut into small pieces. When the beans are
tender add the turnip cut into small cubes, the carrots sliced thinly and
the pumpkin slice cut into large cubes. Discard the onion.
When the carrots are almost cooked add the potato, peeled and cut into
small cubes, the washed leaves of the turnip broken into medium size pieces
by hand, and the leaves of the cabbage hand-shred into large pieces. Let
everything cook together for a while, until soft. Place a teaspoon of
vinegar in each bowl, and fill with the hot soup.
Some soup lovers will add a dash of piri-piri sauce, or of Tabasco.
The soup will taste even better if you boil a ham bone with the beans. If
there is any meat left in the bone shred it and add to the soup. Discard
the bone. (How obvious can I get?) <G>

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