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Grandma's Soup Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 Pint (lima) green beans
10 pods frozen/fresh okra (1 piece = 1 pod)
3 medium squash
2 medium potatoes – Irish (peel and dice)
4 ears corn (cut kernels off)
4 fresh tomatoes (chopped) or one can of diced tomatoes
2 slices fatback – thick slices
1/3 stick blue bonnet margarine
Directions:
Directions:
Cut both ends of okra and squash. Slice both into edible bites. Put beans in pot with seasoning of 2 slices of fatback with 1/3 stick of blue bonnet margarine cover with water. Let boil 10 minutes and potatoes. Let boil 10 minutes add squash. Let boil 20 minutes then add corn. Let boil 10 minutes. Add okra and let boil 15 minutes. Add tomatoes at same time as okra. Let simmer on low for 30 minutes. Serve.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Nana’s mother’s vegetable soup. Ruby (Ellen) Hammond Collins provided this recipe for Kelly Ormsby Smith on request. The vegetables were grown in the back yard by Nana’s father, Raeford Collins.

 

 

 

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