Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 c Dried black beans
2 Ham hocks
1 Bell pepper; chopped
1 sm Onion; chopped
1 Whole sour orange
-=OR=- tangerine
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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