White Bean Soup Recipe ingredients

To prepare this White Bean Soup Recipe, first soak 3 cupfuls of dried white beans for eight hours. Drain, and then cover them with 2 quarts of boiling water. Boil the beans until they are tender and broken to pieces. Rub them through a sieve and return to the fire with the water they were boiled in. Add a quart of stock, in which a piece of corned beef or a ham has been boiled. If too salt, add other soup stock. Boil for an hour, season to taste; stir in a tablespoonful of butter which has been rolled in 1 tablespoonful of flour and put into the tureen. Put a handful of croutons on the surface of the soup.