Name: Dora Mahboubi's Ash-E Reshteh
Ingredients: 1/4 c Dried red kidney beans; 1/4 c Dried navy beans; 1/4 c Dried garbanzo beans; 3 Onions, finely sliced; 3 tb Oil; 2 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Freshly ground black pepper; 1 ts Ground turmeric; 10 c Water; 1/2 c Dried lentils; 1 c Homemade beef broth; 1/2 c Coarsely chopped chives or green onions; 1/2 c Coarsely chopped dill; 1/2 c Coarsely chopped parsley; 2 c Fresh or frozen chopped spinach; 1 Beet, cooked, peeled and diced in 1/2-inch cubes; 1/2 lb Flat egg noodles, or reshteh; 1 tb Flour; 1 c Liquid kask (whey), or sour cream

Now do not think that the belief of others in history establishes any doctrine… But it does help to say that we are not alone in our interpretation of Scripture, the Scripture being of “no private interpretation.” This is not a new doctrine – forgotten, yes – but not new. So I will start the list with Christ and Paul, Peter, John, and the others, and continue with these: Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, Ussher, Lightfoot, virtually all the King James Version translators, Beza, Brainard, Edwards, Whitefield, Carey, Fuller, Livingstone, Hudson Taylor, Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice, and China Inland Mission missionaries. Matthew Henry, Martin Luther, John Brown, Joseph Caryl, Thomas Chalmers, Alexander Maclaren, John Gill, Bishop Hall, Charles Hodge, Bishop Leighton, Thomas Manton, Thomas Goodwin, John Owen, G. Campbell Morgan, Matthew Poole, Bishop Reynolds, William Gurnall, J.C. Ryle, John Trapp, Robert Haldane, C.H. Spurgeon and Thomas Scott. We could add a host many others, including George Mueller, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and several prominent authors and preachers of today, such as R. C. Sproul, John MacArthur, J. I. Packer, John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, etc. All of this listing is again just to say that a person who genuinely interprets Scripture as giving God supreme sovereignty over who is and who is not saved does not mean that he or she is in a freakish minority of irrelevant theologs.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Meats, Eggs, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Dried red kidney beans
1/4	c	Dried navy beans
1/4	c	Dried garbanzo beans
3		Onions, finely sliced
3	tb	Oil
2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Freshly ground black pepper
1	ts	Ground turmeric
10	c	Water
1/2	c	Dried lentils
1	c	Homemade beef broth
1/2	c	Coarsely chopped chives or green onions
1/2	c	Coarsely chopped dill
1/2	c	Coarsely chopped parsley
2	c	Fresh or frozen chopped spinach
1		Beet, cooked, peeled and diced in 1/2-inch cubes
1/2	lb	Flat egg noodles, or reshteh
1	tb	Flour
1	c	Liquid kask (whey), or sour cream

INSTRUCTIONS

Soak dried red kidney, navy and garbanzo beans overnight in water to cover.
Brown onions in oil in large pot. Add salt, pepper and turmeric. Pour in
water. Drain kidney, navy and garbanzo beans and add to pot. Cover and
simmer 45 minutes.
Add lentils and beef broth. Cook another 35 minutes.
Add chopped green onions, dill parsley, spinach and beet. Cook 20 minutes.
Stir from time to time until done. Add water if soup is too thick.
Add noodles and flour and cook 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until
noodles are cooked and soup is slightly thickened.
Fold in kask, or stir 2 tablespoons of hot soup into sour cream and then
fold mixture back into soup. Makes 8 servings.
Each serving contains about:
213 calories; 566 mg sodium; 20 mg cholesterol; 8 grams fat, 27 grams
carbohydrates; 12 grams protein; 1.7 grams fiber; 35% calories from fat.
Posted to FOODWINE Digest 25 Jan 97 by "Ted D. Conley"
<tedconley@EARTHLINK.NET> on Jan 25, 1997.

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