Crockpot recipes |
Old Farm Bean Soup |
1 pound dried navy or pea beans 6 cups water 1/4 pound salt pork 1 large onion -- chopped 1 large carrot -- peeled, chopped 4 sausage links -- scored 1 bay leaf 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon crumbled thyme |
Pick over beans and rinse under running water. Combine beans and water in a large kettle. Bring to a boiling; cover and cook 10 minutes. Remove from heat; let stand 1 hour. Place beans and liquid in slow cooker, score salt pork, almost to rind; push down into beans; stir in onion, carrot, sausage links, bay leaf, salt, pepper and thyme; cover. Cook on LOW for 8 hours. Stir beans; turn heat control to HIGH and cook for 4 hours. Stir beans with a wooden spoon and mash some of them against the side of the cooker to thicken soup. Taste beans; season with additional salt and pepper, if needed. |