Hawthorne Family Cookbook

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SENATE BEAN SOUP

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Ingredients

Directions

serves 8
3 quarts water
2 cups dry navy beans
1 ham bone, with some meat on it
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
3 small onions, finely chopped
1 whole bunch celery tops, chopped
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 teaspoon salt
freshly ground black pepper
Wash beans well and put beans and ham bone in water; soak overnight.
Simmer beans 1 hour in water in which they were soaked.
At end of 1 hour, add mashed potatoes, stirring in well.
Then add all other ingredients.
Simmer 1 hour.
Remove ham bone.
Chop meat into slivers and return to soup. Heat. May need to add more water.

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