Misc.

I have beans on the brain as of late – a real bean brain thing going on. So here is another old recipe for …. BEANS!

Black Bean Soup

Soak one pint of black beans over night, in the morning wash and drain them, put in a kettle with two quarts of cold water. In one and one-half tablespoons of butter fry one small onion delicately brown and add to the beans with two stalks of celery broken in pieces. Simmer gently until the beans are quite soft, adding more water if the liquor cooks away. Rub through a sieve, obtaining all the pulp possible; reheat to the boiling point and season with half a teaspoon of salt, one-eighth teaspoon of pepper, a fourth of a teaspoon

of mustard and a dash of cayenne. Make a binding from one and a half tablespoons each of flour and butter cooked together, and stir into the soup. Cut two hard-boiled eggs and one lemon in thin slices, put them in the tureen, then strain the soup over it and serve.–Stella A. Downing.

Pgs. 281-282
By Isabel Gordon Curtis
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, c1909

You might ask why? I ask why not?

On the local front.

Naseem Khan an undercover FBI informant infiltrated a Muslim sect in Lodi (a Valley farming community) has testified that he saw Ayman al Zawahri Osama bin Laden’s physician and top deputy, attending a mosque in Lodi in 1998 and 1999. The son of an ice cream vendor Hamid Hayat, 23, and his father, Umer, 48 are accused of planning to wage a holy war.
Reading articles on the subject is in a way strange. Usually the articles involving terrorist activities are not full of references to places so familiar.

Lodi News

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