Senate Bean Soup

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 lb dried navy beans or 1 lb great northern beans or 1 lb pea beans
• 1 large smoked ham hock
• 3 potatoes, cooked and mashed
• 2 onions, chopped well
• 1 cup celery, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 wash and sort beans.
• 2 place in a large pot with a lid and add 5 quarts of water.
• 3 bring to a boil and boil hard for 2 minutes.
• 4 cover, remove from heat and let stand for 1 hour.
• 5 bring to a hard boil again, reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours, or until the beans begin to mush.
• 6 add all the ingredients except salt and pepper and simmer for 1 hour longer.
• 7 remove hock, cut up meat and return to the pot.
• 8 discard bone.
• 9 season to taste with salt and pepper, serve.