Grandmas Country Soup 1965

• 12 cup fava beans, dried
• 12 cup great northern bean, dried
• 3 cups water
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste (optional)
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 12 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 1 large carrot, finely chopped
• 1 large celery rib, finely chopped
• 4 cups savoy cabbage, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 2 cups frisee, cut into 1 inch pieces (or escarole)
• salt
• pepper
• 12 cup freshly grated romano cheese
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 14 cup broken spaghetti (optional)

1. Cover each bean in separate bowls with cold water.
2. Soak beans overnight.
3. Note: this water is not part of the three cups added in the recipe.
4. Next day boil fava beans in their same water for five minutes, drain, cool slightly and cut a small slit with knife and remove skins.
5. Set aside.
6. Drain the great northern beans, (no cooking here.)
7. Set aside.
8. Place 1 tablespoons olive oil into a large soup pot, add onion, carrot, and celery cook over med.
9. heat about five minutes.
10. Add tomato paste and cook another two minutes, add in also 1 tsp chilli powder and 1/2 tsp cumin powder.
11. Add all beans, water, stock, Partially cover the pot, and cook on med.
12. heat for about thirty minutes.
13. OR JUST UNTIL BEANS ARE HALF COOKED.
14. Now add the cabbage and lettuce.
15. Cook now until the beans are tender about 40 minutes or so.
16. Taste now and add salt and pepper-- remembering that the final garnish of cheese will add a salty taste also.
17. Ladle into bowls.
18. Sprinkle with grated cheese and drizzle olive oil over each lightly.
19. Also if desired you can break up about 1/4 cup spaghetti and cook separately, and then at serving add as a noodle if desired.

fava beans, great northern bean, water, chicken stock, tomato paste, chili powder, cumin powder, onion, carrot, celery, savoy cabbage, frisee, salt, pepper, romano cheese, olive oil

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/grandmas-country-soup-1965-81413 (may not work)