Creamed Cranberry Bean Soup

Ingredients

• ½ lb dried cranberry beans
• 1 lb kolbász
• 4 qt water
• 4 peppercorns
• ½ onion, diced
• 1 tbsp bacon drippings
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1 onion, minced
• ½ pt sour cream
• 1 tbsp flour

Directions

1. Wash beans.
2. Soak overnight and cook with kolbász in a soup kettle along with onion and salt and peppercorns to taste.
3. When beans and meat are cooked make roux: brown roux ingredients.
4. Til brown in color and add 1 cup water; bring to a boil.
5. Add this to soup and cook about 5 minutes until soup comes back to a boil.
6. Take ½ pint sour cream which is at room temperature.
7. Mix in 1 tbsp flour to thicken.
8. 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).
9. Bring back to gentle boil then turn heat off.