Title: Best ever black bean soup
 Categories: Soup
      Yield: 10 Servings
 
      3 lb Beef bone
    3/4 lb Shin beef
      3 lb Ham shank; cut up, with bone
           -and rind
      3    Whole cloves
    3/4 ts Black peppercorns
    1/4 ts Celery seed
  2 1/2 c  Dried black beans
      1 c  Chopped onion
    1/2 c  Chopped celery
      1 ts Chopped garlic
      1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Black pepper
    1/4 c  Sherry
 
  Combine first six ingredients in large pot. Add 15 cups water, bring
  to a boil & simmer half-covered 8-10 hours. Strain. Discard meat
  bones, rind & spices; refrigerate stock. In refrigerator, soak black
  beans in 10 cups water. Next day, cook onion & celery in 2 Tbs fat
  which has been removed from stock. Add drained beans, 2 additional
  cups water, 7 cups of the meat stock (all fat removed) & chopped
  garlic. Simmer uncovered 2-1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. If beans
  begin to show, add more water. Push all through food mill. Reheat
  with salt, pepper & sherry. Serves 10.
  
  TIME INCLUDES OVERNIGHT SOAKING
  
  From the , Fort Bliss Officers Wives
  Club, Ft. Bliss, TX.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,