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Soup/Stew/Chowder Butter Bean Soup

butter bean soup
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(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

butter beans​
salt​
butter​
flour​
pepper​
cream​
serve with crackers or toasts​

Instructions:

Butter beans should be full grown, but tender. Hull them, rinse and boil them tender, in clear water, with a little salt. Thicken the soup with butter, flour, pepper and cream, and serve it up with crackers or toasts.​

Photo by Howard F. Schwartz, CC-3.0

I have always liked Butter Beans. Here is recipe for Butter Bean Soup from "The Kentucky Housewife" by Lettice Bryan, 1839.

This a simple soup but very good. My husband makes a great butter bean soup this way.
 
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I have always liked Butter Beans. Here is recipe for Butter Bean Soup from "The kentucky Housewife" by Lettice Bryan, 1839.

Butter Bean Soup

Butter beans should be full grown, but tender. Hull them, rinse and boil them tender, in clear water, with a little salt. Thicken the soup with butter, flour, pepper and cream, and serve it up with crackers or toasts.

This a simple soup but very good. My husband makes a great butter bean soup this way.
I like soup; I like butter beans. Bring it on.
 
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I have always liked Butter Beans. Here is recipe for Butter Bean Soup from "The kentucky Housewife" by Lettice Bryan, 1839.

Butter Bean Soup

Butter beans should be full grown, but tender. Hull them, rinse and boil them tender, in clear water, with a little salt. Thicken the soup with butter, flour, pepper and cream, and serve it up with crackers or toasts.

This a simple soup but very good. My husband makes a great butter bean soup this way.
Thanks for reminding me of a favorite 'comfort food'! Throw in a ham hock or ham bone- delicious!
 
Even the mention of butter beans starts this song playing in my mind.
The day I got this CD, I was driving from Kansas to Texas. I fell so in love with this little old-time song about newlywed bliss, I must have played this one song twenty or thirty times rolling down the highway, singing along. Every time it finished, I'd just hit the button and play it again!
Sweet, sweet, sweet.

 
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