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Willie Chili

Our offering this week is appropriate for a winter day. It's Willie Gaffer's own chili recipe.
What you need. What you do.
5 cups water. 2 tsp. salt. 2 cups dry red kidney beans or pinto. Place water, salt and beans in a 3 qt. covered pot and simmer while doing following the steps.
3 lbs. ground round. 4 tbsp. corn oil. Place the oil in an 8 or 10 qt. pot and brown the meat on low heat.
Chop 3 cups cooking onions. 3 tsp. salt. 1&1/2 tsp. black pepper. Add onions, salt and pepper and simmer 1/2 hr.
2 qts. canned tomatoes. Add tomatoes and simmer 1 &1/2 hr.
3 tbsp. ground cumin. 1 tbsp. chili powder. 1 tbsp. basil. Add cumin, chili powder, and basil. Continue to simmer. skim off excess fat.
When beans are tender add them to the chili pot. Simmer 1/2 hr. longer to blend.

Serve hot with corn bread.
This is a large batch, but chili may be frozen and the flavor improves when it's reheated.

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