Brown beans
- From
- Cees
Ingredients
- dried brown beans (Dutch brown beans (bruine bonen); borlotti or pinto beans are the closest substitute.)
- bacon, fried
- onion
- browned butter
- golden syrup
- pickled gherkins
- apple sauce
- potatoes, boiled
- eggs, hard-boiled
- pepper
- salt
Method
- Soak the beans in cold water for about 12 hours.
- Drain, cover with fresh water and boil the beans for about 1 hour, until tender.
- Meanwhile, boil the potatoes and hard-boil the eggs, fry the bacon and onion, and brown some butter in a pan.
- Serve the beans with the fried bacon and onion, browned butter, syrup, pickled gherkins, apple sauce, potatoes and hard-boiled eggs. Season with pepper and salt.
As she wrote it

Brúnar baunir
(Cees)
Lagðar í bleyti í ca. 12klst.
soðnar í ca. 1klst.
steikt bacon + laukur +
br. smjör + sýróp + sýrðar agúrk
+ eplamús + kartöfl. + harðs. egg
+ pipa og salt