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