Vegetable Soup(Lonaconing Style)

• soup bone
• approximately 1 lb. beef cubes
• 1/3 c. lima beans
• 1/3 c. soup beans
• 1/3 c. barley
• 2 carrots
• 2 potatoes
• 1 large onion
• 1 stick celery
• 1/4 cabbage, cut fine
• 1 can tomato sauce
• 1 can or bag frozen mixed vegetables
• salt to taste

1. Soak beans overnight.
2. In a large cook pot, add about a quart of water, beef cubes and soup bone, soup beans and lima beans. Cook slowly about 2 hours.
3. Remove soup bone.
4. Add barley, tomato sauce and salt.
5. Cook about 1/2 hour.
6. Add diced carrots and onion (stir often to keep barley from sticking); add potatoes and cabbage.
7. When these vegetables are done, add the mixed vegetables last and finish cooking about 15 minutes.
8. Add water if too thick.

soup bone, beef cubes, lima beans, soup beans, barley, carrots, potatoes, onion, celery, cabbage, tomato sauce, mixed vegetables, salt

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=858240 (may not work)