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Legume-Bean Soup 3

With all the cold, damp weather we have been having, I thought a good, hardy soup would be a great treat.

Ingredients:

¾ lb. thick bacon, cut in serving pieces

2 cups lentils

½ cup mixed beans

¼ cup pearl barley

1 large onion diced

3-4 stalks of celery sliced

4 cloves garlic, minced

1/8 tsp ginger

¼ tsp thyme

¼ tsp sage

dash cayenne pepper

1 Tbsp salt

2 bay leaves

10-15 cup vegetable broth or water

1 14-ounce can of chopped tomatoes or six fresh tomatoes chopped

Directions:

Sauté bacon in a large soup pot until it starts to crisp, add celery, and onion. Cook until limp. Add remaining ingredients except the tomatoes. Cook until the beans soften.

Add tomatoes. If you add the tomatoes before the beans are cooked they will slow down the process of the beans cooking.

— Barbara Rexford