Brenda s Black Bean Soup

Recipes Ingredients:

3 c Dried black beans
-=OR=- tangerine
2 Ham hocks
1 tb Vinegar *
1 Bell pepper; chopped
1/2 c Oleo
1 sm Onion; chopped
2 tb Flour
1 Whole sour orange
Salt and pepper to taste

Recipe Instructions:

* (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 in Fidonet Cooking