Creamed Cranberry Bean Soup

* Exported from MasterCook *

CREAMED CRANBERRY BEAN SOUP

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Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups/stews

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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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.



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