Vegetable Beef Soup

• 3 lbs beef soup bone
• 1 small onion, quartered
• 2 cups fresh tomatoes, chopped
• 6 sprigs parsley (optional)
• 2 cups chopped cabbage
• 14 cup rice or 14 cup barley
• 5 -6 carrots, sliced
• 2 cups cut green beans
• 1 cup diced potato
• 12 cup chopped celery
• 6 whole mushrooms, sliced
• 12 cup lima beans
• 1 bay leaf
• 12 cup corn

1. Cut half the meat from the bone and brown in shortening.
2. Add remaining meat and bone to 2 quarts if cold water.
3. Add browned meat, onion and 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon of pepper;
4. Cover and cook slowly 2 hours.
5. Add remaining ingredients.
6. Cook 1 hour longer.
7. You can other vegetables too.
8. You can also add additional spices such as the Cajun spice.

beef soup bone, onion, fresh tomatoes, parsley, cabbage, rice, carrots, green beans, potato, celery, mushrooms, beans, bay leaf, corn

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/vegetable-beef-soup-261582 (may not work)