Bean Soup

Ingredients

• two quarts of beans
• one pound of salt pork
• one tablespoonful of soda
• six quarts of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Pick over and soak the beans overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   Scrape and slice the salt pork.

3. 3

   Drain the beans, boil them in cold water with soda for half an hour, skimming constantly.

4. 4

   Drain and add fresh boiling water, boil slowly for an hour and a half, then add the pork.

5. 5

   Mash the beans into a paste, return to pot, and boil for an hour longer.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian ... (1885) by Henry H. Soule , Seneca, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bean Soup. Pick over two quarts of beans, wash, and soak them over night in cold water. Scrape clean one pound of Soups. 5^ salt pork, and cut into thin slices. Drain the beans, put them into six quarts of cold water, with one table- spoonful of soda

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