White Bean Soup

Ingredients

• one cupful of white beans
• three quarts of cold water
• a large tablespoonful of butter
• a cup of cream
• a teaspoonful of celery salt
• salt
• white pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak beans overnight in water.

2. 2

   In the morning, cook in a soup pot with cold water for five hours.

3. 3

   Strain, rubbing beans through sieve.

4. 4

   Add salt, white pepper, butter, cream, and celery salt.

5. 5

   Cook for twenty minutes.

6. 6

   Serve with croutons.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE bean soup, or " white- pot," as it used to be called, is both nourishing and delicious made as follows: Soak one cupful of white beans over night in plenty of water. In the morning put them in a soup pot with three quarts of cold water. Cook for five hours. Strain through a sieve, rubbing the beans through as thoroughly as possible; add salt, white pepper, a large tablespoonful of butter, and a cup of cream; also a teaspoonful of celery salt

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