Share |

ADVERTISERS

Back to Recipe List for Beans and Grains Part 2

Creamed Cranberry Bean Soup

Recipe : Creamed Cranberry Bean Soup
Procedure :

1/2 lb Dried cranberry beans

1 lb Kolbasz

4 qt Water

4 Peppercorns

1/2 Onion -- diced

-----ROUX----- 1 tb Bacon drippings

1 tb Flour

1 Onion -- minced

-----THICKENER----- 1/2 pt Sour cream

1 tb Flour

Wash beans. Soak overnight and cook with kolbasz in a soup kettle along with onion and salt and peppercorns to taste. When beans and meat are cooked, make roux: Brown roux ingred. til brown in color and add 1 c. water; bring to a boil. Add this to soup and cook about 5 minutes until soup comes back to a boil. Take 1/2 pt. sour cream which is at room temperature.

Mix in 1 tb. flour to thicken. To sour cream, add hot soup, 1 tablespoon at a time, and mix well until cream is thinned, then add to hot soup (prevents curdling). Bring back to gentle boil, then turn heat off.

Back to Recipe List for Beans and Grains Part 2