Creamed Cranberry Bean Soup

Ingredients

 * 1/2 lb Dried cranberry beans
 * 1 lb Kolbasz
 * 4 qt water
 * 4 Peppercorns
 * 1/2 Onion; diced
 * 1 tb Bacon drippings
 * 1 tb flour
 * 1 Onion; minced
 * 1/2 pt sour cream
 * 1 tb flour

Directions

 * 1) Wash beans. Soak overnight and cook with kolbasz in a soup kettle along with Onion and salt and peppercorns to taste.
 * 2) When beans and meat are cooked make roux: Brown roux ingred. til brown in color and add 1 c. water; bring to a boil.
 * 3) Add this to soup and cook about 5 minutes until soup comes back to a boil. Take 1/2 pt. sour cream which is at room temperature.
 * 4) Mix in 1 tb. flour to thicken. To sour cream add hot soup 1 tablespoon at a time and mix well until cream is thinned then add to hot soup (prevents curdling).
 * 5) Bring back to gentle boil then turn heat off.