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                          Eats' Black Bean Soup

Recipe By     : Eats, El Segundo, CA
Serving Size  : 8    Preparation Time :5:15
Categories    : Beans

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   2      cups          black beans -- soaked
   4      quarts        water
   3                    whole cloves
   1      whole         onion -- peeled
     1/2  pound         lean beef -- diced
     1/4  pound         salt pork -- prepared
     1/8  teaspoon      cayenne pepper
     1/2  cup           sherry
                        salt and pepper -- to taste

DIRECTIONS: (prep 10-15 mins; soak 2 hrs; cook 3 hrs):
-Rinse beans and sort. Soak for 2 hours. Drain.
-Rinse the salt pork. Cut the rind several times. Rinse some more.
-In a large saucepan place the black beans and the water.
-Stick the whole cloves into the whole onion and add it to the beans.
-Add the diced beef, salt pork, and cayenne pepper. Bring the liquid to a boil. 
Cover the saucepan, reduce the heat to low, and simmer the ingredients for 3 hours,
 or until the beans are tender. Skim off any foam that appears.
-Add the sherry, salt, and pepper.

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NOTES : "This soup is so good that even Fidel Castro would fall in love with it.!" -- Ray Marney, owner of Eats, a classic American restaurant with consistently good food. [from  Stromquist and Stromquist (1990), Southern California Beach Recipe. Sante Fe, NM: Tierra Pubs.]