[Sca-cooks] lentils

[Adele de Maisieres]

Irmgart wrote:

>My *favorite* way to do lentils is from Rumpolt:
>
>*Linsen* (Lentils)
>Rumpolt
>Take lentils/ wash them fine clean/ and soak them. Take also a good
>beef-broth/ let simmer/ cut onion and a little garlic into it/ so that it
>comes nice and thick/ and when it is cooked/ so put green well-tasting
>herbs/ that have been chopped fine/ thereto/ and cooked bacon/ let it simmer
>therewith/ so it becomes good and tasty. You can also cook lentils without
>onion/ how one likes to eat it/ so it may be prepared.
>
>To be fair, I usually cook the bacon in the pot, take it out, saute the
>onions and garlic in it, then add the broth and lentils. For fresh herbs, I
>like it best with rosemary, but that's me, :)
>
>This is a favorite in my house when we are broke as broke can be, because
>lentils, garlic, onions and stock are cheap, I buy bacon when it goes on
>sale and store it in the freezer.
>  
>
Yum!

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