Home Style Pinto Beans

[Danny]

This is a simple but delicious recipe for scratch cooked pintos. Hope all of you like it.

1. 2 cups of dried pintos picked and washed.
2. Soak over night in 7-8 cups of cold water.
3. Drain off water untill it's about 2 inches over the beans. (Do not pour off all the soaking water and add new. Use the
water they are soaked in for more flavor).
4. Add 2 rounded teaspoons of salt.
5. Add 2 Tablespoons of sugar.
6. Add 1/3-1/2 cup of finely diced onion, or 1 heaping Tablespoon of dehydrated onion.
7. Add 2-3 slices of WRIGHTS thick sliced hickory smoked raw bacon, diced or cut across into 1/2 in. slices.
8. Add a little hot sauce for some heat if you like. (optional)


Stir in all ingredience and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a low, slow boil and cover. Check water level occasionally and add more water if needed and stir. Remember, too much water will make a weak, tasteless bean. This is a mistake many cooks make. It's better to add a little water as you go along than too much in the beginning. I try to end the cooking with about an inch to an inch and a half of water over the beans. No more. This is plenty to dip your cornbread in etc. If cooked properly and with the correct amount of liquid, at the end of the cook the bean juice will take on a kind of gravy, foggy appearance and the beans will be nice and tender. Time varys on the cooking time and impossible to say how long they take. Beans will vary. Some are done in about 3 hours and some take 4 hours or more. New crop cooks faster, old beans slower.

Now, fry up some pork chops, cook you some cornbread, slice it in half and pour some bean juice and pleanty of beans over the cornbread. Slice up some fresh out the garden tomatoes and a thick slice of Texas Sweet onion on the side with a glass of ice cold milk or tea and.....well, you got yourself a great country meal. Cheap to fix and good to eat.

Danny

[JamesB]

Hmm... I've always drained off the soaking water and started the cook with fresh. Course, that is the way I learned it from Mama... Gonna have to give your method a go.

Thanks for the recipe!

[FR8 Train]

Thanks for the post. I will definately check it out. Nice and simple is the way to go.

[OSD]

Sounds good. I'll have to try them like that.

[Papa Tom]

Thanks Danny...

[nascarchuck]

I see some beans at my house in the near future!!!

[nbrdnck]

i agree with nascarchuck

[ChileFarmer]

No way can you go wrong with beans, course you gotta have rice and cornbread with them.
Good post. CF

[DATsBBQ]

I respectfully disagree about not rinsing beans after they have been soaked. The longer beans are soaked, the more oligoccharides (the complex sugar molecules that cause farts ) are dispersed into the water the beans soaked in. Rinsing the beans lowers the amount of oligoccharides that will be ingested.

There might also be mites or other little critters floating around in the bean bath that I would prefer not to eat.

[nascarchuck]

I'm still tryin to figure out why folks take the farts out of the beans! Whats the fun in eatin the beans if you cant have a few sonic booms afterwards?!?!?!

[DJ]

Sounds good to me, if ya don't mind, I'd lie to post it on my website.
dj

[Danny]

Sounds good to me, if ya don't mind, I'd lie to post it on my website.
dj

You're most welcome to put it on your website, DJ, but you might want to cook the recipe first and see if you like it.

Danny

[DJ]

Planning on trying it this Fall, if not sooner.
Thanks,
dj

Sounds good to me, if ya don't mind, I'd lie to post it on my website.
dj

You're most welcome to put it on your website, DJ, but you might want to cook the recipe first and see if you like it.

Danny

[BluDawg]

Water the universal cooking liquid is just fine, however never one to miss an opportunity to boost the flavor level of the food that I prepare I cook my beans in beef stock with some rendered fat that I save from briskets after they come off the pit. then there is noting wrong with water either.

[Papa Tom]

I respectfully disagree about not rinsing beans after they have been soaked. The longer beans are soaked, the more oligoccharides (the complex sugar molecules that cause farts ) are dispersed into the water the beans soaked in. Rinsing the beans lowers the amount of oligoccharides that will be ingested.

There might also be mites or other little critters floating around in the bean bath that I would prefer not to eat.

Just add some epizote to the cook.....