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      Title: Hot Cowboy Beans
 Categories: Beans
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
      2 lb Dried pinto beans
    1/2 lb Salt pork; slashed into a
           - fan shape
    1/2 lb Ham, hamhock, or bacon;
           - up to 1 lb
      2 md Onions; coarsely chopped
      2    Jalapenos; up to 3,
           - canned or fresh seeded,
           - finely chopped
      1    Fresh green chilies;
           - up to 3,
           - seeded and chopped
      1 tb Worcestershire sauce
  1 1/2 oz Chili powder (1/2 bottle)
           Salt; to taste
 
  Pick over beans for rocks; wash and soak overnight. Next morning,
  cook in soaking water. Add remaining ingredients and enough fresh
  water to cover the beans by about 2". Bring to boil, then reduce heat
  and simmer. For 3 days stir and inhale the marvelous aroma from time
  to time. Turn fire off at night. Keep covered at all times. Watch
  water; you may have to add a little as you go along. Of course you
  can eat these beans the first day, but here's the way the cowboys did
  it: They ate a few the first day. Let them cool at night. Cooked them
  the next day and then again. By the third day they were rubbing their
  bellies and saying they sure as hell wished they'd waited, 'cause the
  beans was just getting' good.
  
  Recipe by The Only Texas Cookbook
 
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