Plains Tribes Dried Corn Soup

Ingredients

1 ear blue
1,700 ml water
1 slice fatback
140 gr beef
1 gr pepper

Instructions

Soak the corn in 2 cups water for 48 hours. Place the corn and its soaked water in a large saucepan. Addthe remaining water and the fatback and simmer, covered for about 3 hours and 50 minutes or until the corn is tender but not soft. Mix in the dreid beef or buffalo and pepper. Simmer, stirring for 10 more minutes. Serve hot.