Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

6 oz (1 cup) Dried white beans 1 oz (3/4 cup) Raisins; plumped
1/2 pt (1-1/2 c) Almond milk * -in hot vinegar in which you
1/4 pt (1/2 cup) White wine -have dissolved a little
4 tb Honey -brown sugar.

* See ALMOND MILK recipe.

Soak the beans in water for 1 hour, drain, put them in a saucepan
and cover with salted water. Simmer until tender, for about 1 hour.
Drain, reserving the cooking water. Put the beans into a saucepan
with the almond milk, wine, and honey and simmer for 10 minutes. If
the soup is too thick, dilute it with the cooking water. Season to
taste and add the drained raisins. Simmer for 5 minutes and serve.

From the Original: "For to make a potage feneboiles: Take white beans
and seeth them in water and bray the beans in a mortar all to nought
and let it seeth in almonds milk and do therein wine and honey and
seeth raisins in wine and do thereto serue it forth.

From the _Forme of Cury_, 1378 ed. by Rev.Samual Pegge, 1700's in
_Seven Centuries of English Cooking_; Maxime de la Falaise Grove
Press, London, 1992 ISBN 0-8021-3296-0 Typos by Jeff Pruett
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 05-11-95

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