Black Bean Puree

Ingredients

• 2 cups black beans (380g)
• 8 cups water (1,920ml)
• 4 tablespoons chopped pork
• 3 tablespoons chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• 6 cloves
• ½ teaspoon mustard
• 2 tablespoons butter (28g)
• 1 hard-cooked egg
• 1 lemon sliced

Method

1. Soak beans over night, drain, add water and cook until tender—four or five hours.
2. Garnish with egg cut in slices and lemon.
3. Press through a sieve; cook pork in a frying pan, add onion, cook five minutes; add bean mixture, melt butter, add flour and seasonings; combine mixtures, strain.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard