Recipe - Lima Bean Chowder

1 cup Dried lima beans
3 cup Cold water
One half teaspoon Salt
4 sl Bacon
One fourth cup Onion; finely chopped
2 cup Diced raw potatoes
1 cup Diced carrot
1 cup Water
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
2 cup Milk
2 tablespoon Finely chopped parsley

Wash beans thoroughly and put into soup kettle. Add water and salt, heat to
boiling, reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes. Reserve One half cup of whole lima;
puree the remainder along with the liquid left from cooking. Panfry bacon
until done. Remove and add the onion to the fat and saute' until soft. Add
potatoes, carrots and 1 cup water and the Three fourths teaspoon salt. Simmer for 15
minutes or until vegetables are tender. Add milk, the pure'ed and the whole
beans. Heat to boiling. Serve immediately. Crumble bacon and sprinkle it
and the parsley over the chowder. 4 generous servings.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 342 by ncanty@juno.com (Nadia I
Canty) on Dec 5, 1997