Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Beans:

Beans: they can be used in many different ways:

 A bean pie recipe with  beans, butter, and spices.
Ingredients:

    2 (15 ounces each) cans beans,     drained
    3 large eggs
    1 1/4 cups sugar
    1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    1 teaspoon ground nutmeg or use freshly grated
    1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 cup evaporated milk
    1 pie crust, 9-inch, baked, cooled




In mixing bowl, make sure to beat and drained beans until smooth. Then blend eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. In a separate bowl, combine baking powder and milk. Add to bean mixture. Beat mixture well to blend; pour into the cooled pie shell.
Bake the pie in preheated 350° oven until set. Let pie cool.