Abbey's Pinto Bean Sludge
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I call it Hardcase Pinto Bean Sludge. | I call it Hardcase Pinto Bean Sludge. | ||
| − | #Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburrs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc. | + | #Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburrs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc. Wash in clear cold crick water. Soak for twenty-fours in iron kettle or earthenware cooking pot. (DO NOT USE TEFLON, ALUMINUM OR PYREX CONTAINER. THIS WARNING CANNOT BE OVESTRESSED.) |
| + | #Place kettle or pot with entire fifty lbs. of pinto beans on low fire and simmer for twenty-four hours. (DO NOT POUR OFF WATER IN WHICH BEANS HAVE BEEN IMMERSED. THIS IS IMPORTANT.) Fire must be of juniper, pinyon pine, mesquite or ironwood; other fuels tend to modify the subtle flavor and delicate aroma of Pinto Bean Sludge. | ||
| + | #DO NOT BOIL. | ||
| + | #STIR VIGOROUSLY FROM TIME TO TIME WITH WOODEN SPOON OR IRON LADLE. (Do not disregard these instructions.) | ||
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Revision as of 19:21, 8 March 2008
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.
- Take one fifty-pound sack Colorado pinto beans. Remove stones, cockleburrs, horseshit, ants, lizards, etc. Wash in clear cold crick water. Soak for twenty-fours in iron kettle or earthenware cooking pot. (DO NOT USE TEFLON, ALUMINUM OR PYREX CONTAINER. THIS WARNING CANNOT BE OVESTRESSED.)
- Place kettle or pot with entire fifty lbs. of pinto beans on low fire and simmer for twenty-four hours. (DO NOT POUR OFF WATER IN WHICH BEANS HAVE BEEN IMMERSED. THIS IS IMPORTANT.) Fire must be of juniper, pinyon pine, mesquite or ironwood; other fuels tend to modify the subtle flavor and delicate aroma of Pinto Bean Sludge.
- DO NOT BOIL.
- STIR VIGOROUSLY FROM TIME TO TIME WITH WOODEN SPOON OR IRON LADLE. (Do not disregard these instructions.)