Thick Haricot Beans Soup

Ingredients

 * Haricot beans - 1 tea cup,
 * Milk - 1 tea cup,
 * Butter - 2 tea spoons, (or sunflower oil - 1 table spoon),
 * Mint (fresh or dried) - 1 table spoon,
 * Red pepper - 1 tea spoon,
 * Salt - for a taste

Directions

 * 1) Clean and wash the beans and soak in cold water with salt for the night.
 * 2) Then wash them again, put them in a pot, pour cold water and boil them soft (you may throw the first water).
 * 3) Filtrate the beans through a strainer and mash them with a wooden spoon.
 * 4) Mix them with the milk; pour some of the "bouillon" so that the liquid is three fingers above the slashed beans.
 * 5) Put the mint and the red pepper, some salt and boil for another quarter of an hour at a moderate temperature.