Recipe - To Soak And Cook Dry Beans (Low Salt)

TO SOAK
1 pound Dry beans
10 cup Boiling water

TO COOK
Beans; soaked
6 cup Hot water
2 tablespoon Oil; or half
1 teaspoon Salt; or more, to taste

In a soup pot (about 5quart capacity), heat 2One half quarts of water to a
boil. Meanwhile, sort and rinse the beans. Add beans to the boiling water.
[1] To soak more than 12 hours ... Boil the beans for 2 minutes; remove
from heat. Cover and soak 12 hours or overnight. [2] To quick soak ... Boil
the beans for 3 minutes; turn off heat but keep pot on burner. Cover and
soak from 1 to 4 hours. Rinse and drain thoroughly.

Place drained, soaked beans in the soup pot. Add water, oil and some salt.
Boil gently with lid tilted 20 to 25 minutes or until beans are tender.
Makes 6 cups.

Leftover beans may be packaged in freezer for 3 months.

1 cup dry makes about 3 cups cooked beans. 1 pound dry makes about 6 cups
cooked.

Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 11:58:41 0700 (PDT)

From: PatH phannema@wizard.ucr.edu

Recipe By: Dottie Griffith, Gourmet Grains, Beans & Rice

MCRecipe Digest #133

From the MasterCook recipe list. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.