Old-Old-School Comfort Food with Lewis and Clark

Edible dramaturgy is our favorite kind of dramaturgy. This is kind of food Lewis and Clark would have eaten when times were good on the expedition of the Corps of Discovery – corn and beans with sunflower nuts. Eat on. 
Corn and Beans with Sunflower Nuts
 
Ingredients:
¼ cup butter or margarine
1 cup canned black beans
2 cups canned and drained (or frozen and thawed) whole kernel corn
¾ cup water
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ cup unsalted shelled sunflower nuts
 

  1. In a large saucepan, melt ¼ cup butter over medium heat.
  2. Drain and rinse 1 cup black beans
  3. Add beans and 2 cups corn to saucepan.  Cook about 5 minutes.
  4. Stir in water, salt, black pepper, and red pepper.  Bring to boil over medium heat.
  5. Reduce heat to low.  Cook about 20 minutes.
  6. Stir in sunflower nuts and serve.

~From Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Mary Gunderson,

Capstone Press, 2000