Red Pottage Recipe ingredients

• ½ a pound dried beans
• 1 teacup tomato puree
• 1 beet
• 2 tablespoons Crisco
• 2 onions
• piece of celery
• 1 small piece of parsnip
• 2 quarts good stock

To prepare this Red Pottage Recipe, first put Crisco in saucepan then add onions, celery and parsnip; cook a little, do not let it get very brown, then add dried beans, tomato puree; sliced beet and add pepper and salt to taste and then stock, and boil till all is tender. Rub through a fine sieve, reheat and serve.