Brenda's Black Bean Soupsoups/stews 3 cup dried black beans 2 ham hocks 1 bell pepper; chopped 1 small onion; chopped 1 whole sour orange =or=- tangerine 1 tablespoon vinegar * 1/2 cup oleo 2 tablespoon flour 1 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 |
