BEANS AND SOW BELLY

Beans, beans the musical fruit.
The more you eat the more you toot!
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So lets eat beans for every meal.

Great Northerns' simmered with hog belly, topped with chopped onion, laced with Apple Cider vinegar and served with just-out-of-the-oven cornbread spread with fresh creamery butter.

1 pound large white beans
1/4 pound sow belly (bacon or salt pork)
10 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Chopped onion
Apple Cider Vinegar
Dry Sherry

Wash beans and place in large pot.  Cover with water.  Bring to a boil.  Reduce heat, cover and slow simmer for 2 hours.  Stir every 1/2 hour.  Add salt and pepper.

Serve in bowls with a thimble of Apple Cider Vinegar (per bowl) or 2 tablespoons dry sherry (per bowl) topped with chopped onion. Serve with cornbread.