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- From: reid@glacier (Brian Reid)
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- Subject: RECIPE: U.S. Senate Bean Soup
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- Date: 8 Aug 86 05:16:48 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SENATE-SOUP SP "11 Jan 86" 1986
- .RZ "SENATE BEAN SOUP" "Bean soup as served in the U.S. Senate dining room"
- I lived in suburban Washington DC for most of my formative years. One of the
- things that formed in the aforementioned years was a strong impression that
- the government was full of beans. One day on a school visit to my senator
- I learned just how it was that the government got to be so full of beans, and
- I came away with the recipe. This is one of the best soups I have ever
- tasted. Serve it with a big loaf of fresh hot homemade whole-wheat bread,
- from which people just tear the bread with their fingers.
- .PP
- The House of Representatives serves a version without the onions and garlic
- and mashed potatoes.
- .IH "Serves 6"
- .IG "1 lb" "dried Navy beans" "500 g"
- .IG "1" "ham bone"
- (get one with plenty of meat on it)
- .IG "12 cups" "water" "3 l"
- .IG "3" "medium onions,"
- chopped fine.
- .IG "3 cloves" "fresh garlic,"
- minced.
- .IG "3" "celery stalks,"
- chopped fine.
- .IG "1/4 cup" "fresh parsley," "10 g"
- (chopped fine)
- .IG "1 cup" "mashed potatoes" "250 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- (or less to taste)
- .IG "1/4 tsp" "pepper" "1 ml"
- .IG "1/4 cup" "chopped fresh chives" "20 g"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Wash the beans and remove those that float in the wash water.
- Soak beans overnight in enough water to cover them by several inches.
- Drain.
- .SK 2
- In a large kettle, place 3
- .AB "quarts" "liters"
- of cold water. Add the drained beans and
- the ham bone, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered,
- for 2 hours. If scum forms on the surface, skim it off.
- .SK 3
- Chop the onions, garlic, celery, and parsley. Add to the pot. Add the mashed
- potato to the pot. Simmer 1 more hour. Check the beans. If they are not yet
- tender, then simmer some more.
- .SK 4
- Add salt and pepper. Remove the ham bone and pull the meat from it. Cut the
- meat into small chunks, and toss them back into the soup.
- .SK 5
- Serve piping hot into preheated bowls, and sprinkle chopped fresh chives atop
- each.
- .NX
- Great Northern beans are an adequate substitute for Navy beans. If you
- forgot to soak them overnight and still want to make the soup, you can
- simmer them for an hour and then discard that water. The beans end up with
- slightly more flavor if you cold-soak them.
- .PP
- You can almost
- certainly get away with using instant mashed potato flakes to acquire the
- .AB "1 cup" "250 ml"
- of mashed potatoes that this recipe calls for.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 8 hours soaking, 10 minutes preparation, 3 hours cooking.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research, Palo Alto, California
- reid@decwrl.dec.com {ihnp4,decvax}!decwrl!reid
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