Name: Ossum Salad (Hallgarten)
Ingredients: 1 c Red kidney beans; soaked overnight; 3 tb French dressing; 1 sm Onion; finely chopped; 3 Hard-cooked eggs; chopped; 1 sm Head celery; chopped OR 1 small cauliflower, chopped; 3 tb Brown or mustard pickle; 5 Anchovy fillets; chopped, optional; 5/8 c Sour cream OR yogurt; Salt and pepper

The excessive preeminence given to the Holy Spirit in their devotions and their preoccupation with gifts, ecstasies, and “prophecies” has tended to neglect of the Scriptures. Why be tied to a Book out of the past when one can communicate every day with the living God? But this is exactly the danger point. Apart from the constant control of the written revelation, we soon find ourselves engulfed in subjectivity; and the believer, even if he has the best intentions, can sink rapidly into deviations, illuminism or exaltation. Let each remind himself of the prohibition of taking anything away from Scripture or adding anything to it (Deut. 4:2; Rev. 22:18–19). Almost every heresy and sect has originated in a supposed revelation or a new experience on the part of its founder, something outside the strictly biblical framework.

Rene Pache

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy, Grains	French	Eggs, Sour cream, Salads, Yogurt	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Red kidney beans; soaked overnight
3	tb	French dressing
1	sm	Onion; finely chopped
3		Hard-cooked eggs; chopped
1	sm	Head celery; chopped OR 1 small cauliflower, chopped
3	tb	Brown or mustard pickle
5		Anchovy fillets; chopped, optional
5/8	c	Sour cream OR yogurt
		Salt and pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Bring the soaked beans to the boil in fresh water and boil rapidly for 10
minutes, then cook for 1 to 1-1/2hours, until they are tender but not soft
. Drain them and pour over the French dressing and onion while they are
still warm. When the beans are cold, add the remaining ingredients, mixing
everything together well. Refrigerate and serve cold.
NOTE: Staying with American friends we were served this salad. "Gee, Mom,
this is an ossum salad," the son declared. Intrigued by the name, I asked
for the recipe, to be told that what the young man had in fact said was
"awesome". But "ossum" it will always be to me. It is one of those salads
where anything goes - the important thing is to have a good balance between
the beans and a crisp ingredient.
Use yogurt instead of sour cream if preferred.
REFs >COOKING WITH YOGURT, by Hallgarten (1985). Hardcover. Chartwell
Books. ISBN 0890098808 (out of print). >Edited by Pat Hanneman (kitpath)
Recipe by: CULTURED MILK PRODUCTS,^ by Hallgarten (1985)
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Mar 14,
1998

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