{"id":4680,"slug":"white-bean-soup","title":"White bean soup.","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["a quart of beans","four quarts of water, or a mild soup stock","a half pound of lean bacon","a shinbone, if desired","an onion","a carrot","a stalk of celery","butter","a spoonful of flour","a potato","water from the beans","salt, pepper and chopped parsley"],"ingredients_norm":["bean","water or mild soup stock","lean bacon","shinbone","onion","carrot","celery","butter","flour","potato","water from the bean","salt"],"steps":["Soak a quart of beans over night.","Put in a vessel with four quarts of water, or a mild soup stock. Add a half pound of lean bacon, and a shinbone, if desired. Start to boil rapidly, then remove to back of stove and cook for several hours until the beans drop to pieces. Skim from time to time.","Meanwhile chop very fine an onion, a carrot and a stalk of celery, and simmer in butter until they take on a slightly brown color.","Add a spoonful of flour, a potato cut in small dices, and the water from the beans.","Strain the beans, and to the purée add the cooked vegetables; cut the bacon in small pieces, and cook all together for twenty minutes.","Season with salt, pepper and chopped parsley."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w27:9","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"ff0bee83bf4a2fb9b8447182c3c1e6673b16b8f0b51cac2faef25ff0b43a67fa","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:38:20Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/white-bean-soup"}