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Brown beans

From
Cees

Ingredients

  • dried brown beans (Dutch brown beans (bruine bonen); borlotti or pinto beans are the closest substitute.)
  • bacon, fried
  • onion
  • browned butter
  • golden syrup
  • pickled gherkins
  • apple sauce
  • potatoes, boiled
  • eggs, hard-boiled
  • pepper
  • salt

Method

  1. Soak the beans in cold water for about 12 hours.
  2. Drain, cover with fresh water and boil the beans for about 1 hour, until tender.
  3. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes and hard-boil the eggs, fry the bacon and onion, and brown some butter in a pan.
  4. Serve the beans with the fried bacon and onion, browned butter, syrup, pickled gherkins, apple sauce, potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. Season with pepper and salt.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Brúnar baunir
(Cees)
Lagðar í bleyti í ca. 12klst. soðnar í ca. 1klst. steikt bacon + laukur + br. smjör + sýróp + sýrðar agúrk + eplamús + kartöfl. + harðs. egg + pipa og salt