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How to Boil White Beans

Soak one pound dried white beans in two gallons cold water for fourteen hours. Drain well and place them in a rather small saucepan with two quarts cold water, one medium carrot cut in quarters, one medium white onion cut in half, and two leeks tied up with two branches parsley. Add one-ounce piece lean salt pork, one bean sound garlic, one teaspoon salt and half teaspoon pepper. Cover the pan and let simmer on a slow fire for one hour and a half. Remove all the ingredients, drain the beans on a sieve and use as required. Hash up the ounce of salt pork, mix and use with the beans.