Recipe - Green Bean And Garlic Soup

6 cup Water
1 teaspoon Salt (or to taste)
1 Thyme sprig
OR
One fourth teaspoon Dried thyme
1 Bay leaf
1 teaspoon Olive oil
10 Garlic cloves, minced or
put through a press
One half pound Green beans, 1 1/2" lengths
1 Egg
Freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoon Fresh parsley, chopped
Croutons

Combine the water, salt, thyme, bay leaf and olive oil in a soup pot
and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and squeeze in the
garlic. Add the green beans and simmer, uncovered, for 1012 minutes.
Adjust seasonings.

Beat the egg in a bowl and ladle some soup into the egg, stirring.
Return to the pot, stirring all the while. Add pepper. Let simmer a
few minutes, tasting to make sure the flavors blend. Serve topped
with parsley and/or croutons.

From Tuscon area newspapers, 1994, 3rd quarter, courtest Mike Orchekowski.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/tn94q3.zip