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Antique Old-fashioned Bean Soup
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 240 Minutes
Ready In: 240 Minutes
Servings: 3
The following recipe was transcribed ver batim from The Daily Picayune New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana January 16, 1912
Ingredients:
1 pint white beans
beef
soup bone
pork fat
pepper salt
onion
carrots
turnips
potatoes
Directions:
1. Put in [to] soak overnight one pint of white beans.
2. Next day put on to boil a piece of lean beef, a soup bone with a bit of meat on it is best, and a piece of fat pork about three inches square. Turn in the beans, water and all.
3. Put in a little pepper and salt and and a bit of sliced onion.
4. Cook at least four hours.
5. At the proper time, so as to be thoroughly cooked at serving time, put in a few carrots, potatoes and sliced turnips.
6. Old-fashioned, but delicious.
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