Dried Native Bean Soup

Ingredients

• ½ breakfast cup of beans, wakin-bissa if possible
• 1½ pints water
• 1 onion stuck with one clove
• 1 breakfast cup stock or milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• (A bunch of parsley)

Method

1. 1

   Soak the beans in cold water for a day.

2. 2

   Drain and boil with onion, salt, and pepper until soft.

3. 3

   Pass through a sieve, keeping the water.

4. 4

   Return to saucepan, add stock or milk, and boil until creamy.

5. 5

   Add butter before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical West African cookery (1910) by S. Leith-Ross, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dried Native Bean Soup. (I). £ breakfast cup of beans, wakin-bissa if possible, lj pints water, i onion stuck with one clove. 1 breakfast cup stock or milk. 1 teaspoon salt. £ teaspoon pepper. (A bunch of parsley). The beans should be soaked through the day in about two breakfast cupfuls of cold water, the length of soaking required depends upon the dryness of the beans. 1. Drain the water off the beans and put them in the saucepan with the cold water, onion, salt, pepper (and parsley if obtainable), let it boil till tbe beans are quite soft ; it they have been well soaked this should be in about an hour’s time. 2. Pass the beans through the sieve taking care to keep the water that drains from them. 3. Return the mashed beans and water to the saucepan. If there is less than a breakfast cup of water left, add a little more, hot. 4. Pour in the breakfast cup stock or milk and bring t-o the boil. The soup when ready should be of the consistency of cream ; if it is too thin it can be allowed to simmer a little until it has thickened. SOUPS. 47 5. Just before serving put in half a teaspoon fresh butter if available. Some finely chopped parsley added to the soup is an improvement, as are fried dices of bread. Note. — This soup can be made without either stock or milk if necessary. Fresh beans can be used instead of dried ; they require no soaking. Dried Pea Soup. (I). Small £ teacup dried peas. 1 breakfast cup stock or milk. 14 pints water

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