Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 1 pint white beans
• 2 quarts cold water
• ½ pound of lean salt pork
• ½ cupful fine-cut soup celery
• 1 carrot
• 2 onions

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans in cold water; drain and put with cold water over fire; wash and scald pork; add to beans; when boiling, add celery, carrot, and onions; cover and cook until beans are tender; strain, season with salt, and serve with toasted bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 quarts cold water in saucepan over the fire ; add V, table- s|)oonful salt ; a^ sodii as it boils, add % cupful fine-cut eeler^ and 1 large peeled potato, cilt into pieces. Fry in 1 tablespoonful but- ter or drippings i fine-chot)ped onions 5 minuted ; add them to the lk>up with 1 fine-cut carrot, cbver the saucepah, and boil the soup till done ; season to taste with sU t Und a little White pepper ; serr^ with small squares of tbadted bread. If this sdup is to be extra mo&, add a little beef extract and yi chp of cream ; also 1 tablespoonf til unsweeitened condensed ttiilk i^ an improvement ; a small pi^be of bone from a boiled ham may be boiled with the peas. Green-Pea Soup. — Shell 2 quarts of fresh green peas, placo the shells in a saucepan, cover with boiling water, and cook 1 hour ; SQffPS, JBtp. 63 tiifin 4nuo pff the Wftti^r inf^ a ple^n sauci^im, retnni tp the firje, und as aoon fi9 t^oijiipg ^d 1 cupful young carrots, cut in julienne; cook }5 n^inutes ; then adjd the pei^, sea^^;^ with % jtablespoonf ul of salty and cook 30 minutes ; melt 1 tablespoonful butter, add 1 table- spoonful flour, stir a few minutes over the fire ; add it to the soup, cook a few minutes longer ; remove from fire, add 1 tablespoonful fine-chopped parsley, and serve. If handy, add a few tablespoonfuls of cream. Small sponge dumpling may be boiled in the soup. ^an Soup. — Soak 1 pijit white beans for several hours in cold water ; then drain and put them with 2 quarts cold water over the fire ; wash and scald in boiling water Y^ pound of lean salt pork ; add the pork to th,e beans ; as soon as it boils, add Y^ cupful fine- cut soup celery, 1 carrot, and 2 onions

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