Potato Soup

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This was my great-grandmother’s recipe for potato soup. She lived during the great depression, and this recipe is an obvious example of this. This was my first time making this soup, but this is the recipe exactly the way that she had it. It’s incredibly flavorful considering the ingredients and I highly recommend at least trying it. *The original recipe did say to use a 3qt sauce pan and fill it half way with potatoes, but as you can see with my photos, 3 qt wasn’t big enough for me, nearly over flowing when adding the wax beans and my inability to stir it.

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1. In a 4 qt dutch oven or larger, peel and cube potatoes into bite sized pieces. Fill the pan to 1.5 quarts with potatoes, or about 8 cups of potatoes. Slice thinly 1 medium onion or 2 small onions, and add to pot. Cover with water.
2. Boil until potatoes are done, about 20-30 minutes. Add 1 can of wax beans and juice. Heat to boil. Add 1 can of evaporated milk, then heat, but do not boil. Add 2 Tbsp of salt and 2 Tbsp butter to taste. Remove from heat and serve.