Name: Gary's Simple Bean Soup
Ingredients: 2 tb Butter; 2 Carrots; peeled or scraped; 2 Stalks celery; 1 lg Onion; 5 Cloves garlic; 1/2 ts Ground thyme; 1 lb White beans; dried; Salt and pepper; 1 Ham bone

They who avow the doctrines distinguished by the name of Calvinistic, ought, if consistent with their own principles, to be most gentle and forbearing of all men, in meekness instructing them that oppose. With us, it is a fundamental maxim, that a man can receive nothing but what is given him from heaven (John 3:27). If, therefore, it has pleased God to give us the knowledge of some truths, which are hidden from others, who have the same outward means of information; it is a just reason for thankfulness to Him, but will not justify our being angry with them; for we are no better or wiser than they in ourselves, and might have opposed the truths which we now prize, with the same eagerness and obstinacy, if His grace had not made us to differ. If the man, mentioned in John 9, who was born blind, on whom our Lord graciously bestowed the blessing of sight, had taken a cudgel and beat all the blind men he met, because they would not see, his conduct would have greatly resembled that of an angry Calvinist.

John Newton

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	French	Beans, Soups	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	tb	Butter
2		Carrots; peeled or scraped
2		Stalks celery
1	lg	Onion
5		Cloves garlic
1/2	ts	Ground thyme
1	lb	White beans; dried
		Salt and pepper
1		Ham bone

INSTRUCTIONS

Melt the butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Put the carrots,
celery, onion, and garlic in a food processor and process till still a
little chunky (about 1/4 inch chunks). Transfer to the soup pot and cook
for 5 minutes. Add thyme and cook 5 minutes more.
Add 1/2 gallon cold water, the ham bone, and the beans. Bring to a boil;
then turn the heat down to a simmer (about 2 on electric stove), cover, and
cook for about 3 to 3 1/2 hours, adding more water to keep the beans
covered by 1 inch. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
NOTES : Gary's other possibilities: Use 1 1/2 T curry, adding half instead
of thyme and half with the salt and pepper. Add a peeled chopped tomato.
Add some sausage (this is good). Finely mince 6 coriander leaves and cook
with the soup. Pass a bowl of grated Monterey jack cheese or sour cream
with the soup. Serve with French bread.
Recipe by: GC
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by MJSpence <MJSpence@aol.com> on Apr 18, 1998

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