Abbey's Pinto Bean Sludge

From Orion, July/August 2006

Victoria McCabe 19 May 1973

Dear Victoria, Herewith my bit for your cookbook. This recipe is not original but a variation on an old (perhaps Ancient) Southwestern dish. It has also been a favorite of mine and was for many years the staple, the sole staple, of my personal nutrition program. (I am six feet three and weigh 190 pounds, sober.)

I call it Hardcase Pinto Bean Sludge.

1. Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburrs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc.