G'day mates,

Just excavating the dimmer recesses of the kitchen cupboard tonight
and came across several of those 500 g retail plastic bags of various
dry peas, beans, lentils, etc., which I'd forgotten about.

Several are actually pretty close to their "Use By" dates: probably
should just chuck them out, but thought it could be good practice for
life as a pauper if I did something more useful with them!

Some sort of concoction based on bacon bones springs to mind -- but it
would need to be a pretty thick "soup" to make much impression on the
collection of dried seeds in the cupboard.

Anyone got any suggestions for a brew based on these things? Would be
happy to freeze a quantity of the result, if that would be acceptable.

I've done a google, and there are 107,000 responses to the query
"bacon bones soup", but I think I need a more concentrated brew than
any of the soups I checked out, if I'm to make much of an impression
on my horde. Has anyone successfully made such a product at home that
was still acceptable after reconstituting from the frozen state?

Thanks for reading. Thanks in advance for any useful suggestions.

Addendum:
The items closest to "dead" a Dried Peas ("Blue Boilers"), Red
Lentils (split), Green Lentils (whole), and one of those commercial
"soup mixes" with mixed peas, barley, and lentils (mostly barley!).

Other things available a Lima Beans, Red Kidney Beans, and Black
Eye Beans (I think the last is a cultivar of cowpea [_Vigna_ sp.]).

Cheers, Phred.

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LID