Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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   3      cups          dried black beans
   2                    ham hocks
   1                    bell pepper -- chopped
   1      small         onion -- chopped
   1      whole         sour orange -- =or=- tangerine
   1      tablespoon    vinegar *
     1/2  cup           oleo
   2      tablespoons   flour
                        salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

* (if you used a sweet orange or tangerine) Put your beans in a soup pot and cover with water. Boil, take off the fire and let sit until cool. Cook onions and bell peppers in 1/2 the oleo until limp. Add them and the ham hocks and orange to the cooled beans; cover charitably with water. Simmer until beans is soft (1 to 2 hours). Fish out the orange right now, before it gets tore up. With the rest of the oleo, brown the flour in a black frying pan, then stir it into the beans. Brenda says: "Make sure you got a soup, now. If you need to add some more water, do it." From "White Trash Cooking", Ernest Matthew Mickler. Ten Speed Press, 1986. ISBN 0-89815-189-9.