Servings
8 s
Ingredients
- 2 cups
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
- 4 Bacon slices, cut in squares
- 4
- 4
- 1/2 teaspoon Thyme (dried)
- 1
- 4 ounce Can of tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons Olive oil
- 1
- 1 tablespoon Wine vinegar
Directions
- The approximate cooking time is 3 hours.
- Cover the washed beans with 6-8 cups of water and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, cover and boil gently for 1 hour and then simmer while still covered.
- Stir about every 15 minutes for the ENTIRE time the beans are cooking.
- After the beans have been cooking for about 1 hour and 45 minutes chop the onion and celery and carrots.
- Slice the four slices of bacon into 1″ squares.
- Saute the onion, celery and bacon squares in the olive oil for about 10 minutes.
- Add to the beans along with the thyme, chopped carrots and tomato paste.
- Simmer uncovered for another hour until the beans are tender and slightly mash the beans.
- Add the salt, pepper and wine vinegar before serving.
- Submitted By JSCHLANK@PACIFICNET.
- NET On THU, 21 DEC 1995 200833 -0500 From Gemini’s MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini