Recipes

[novamc1]

I always used  ham hocks for  bean and pea soups, but since I discovered that our local HoneyBaked Ham store sells frozen ham bones, those are my choice to use with dried split peas and beans.  They are absolutely delicious, because of the way HB seasons its ham products.

Some of those bones are huge  I  recently bought the smallest one they had in the freezer case, paid around $3.00 for it, and it had lots of ham still on it that went into the soup.  With one of their larger bones (costing around $13 and up), you could make soup for an army.

Other than the ham bone, my pea and bean soups  always contain chopped onion, celery and carrots, some chicken broth (or chicken stock), as well as water, and maybe some dried parsley, thyme or other herbs.    That's all it seems to need.

The soups do get very thick and concentrated, and I just thin them out with water when reheating. 

[Scooby Doo]

This one:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17628/basic-ham-and-bean-soup/

[KatieB]

What are rivels?  Never heard that word before I don't think...

[Carmie]

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@KatieBwrote:

What are rivels?  Never heard that word before I don't think...

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Hi KatieB  

Rivels are made with flour, salt and eggs.  You mix the ingredients into a soft dough and drop it by spoonfuls into hot soup.  

They will cook in the broth  and are like little doughy dumplings. 

My MIL who was born and raised in Europe, would rub the ball of dough on a box style grater and her rivals would be tiny pasta bits.

[sunshine45]

i have never heard of rivels before.

my moms bean soup is pretty simple and delicious. i should have her make it one time and watch as she is doing it so i dont lose the "recipe."

it is a pretty simple recipe though

chopped onions

ham hocks

chicken stock or turkey stock

great northern beans

sometimes some chopped tiny potato

a spoonful or two of tomato paste.

lots of freshly ground pepper

now i am craving bean soup!

[Harpa]

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@sunshine45wrote:

i have never heard of rivels before.

my moms bean soup is pretty simple and delicious. i should have her make it one time and watch as she is doing it so i dont lose the "recipe."

it is a pretty simple recipe though

chopped onions

ham hocks

chicken stock or turkey stock

great northern beans

sometimes some chopped tiny potato

a spoonful or two of tomato paste.

lots of freshly ground pepper

now i am craving bean soup!

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@sunshine45

Aren't we all?!

They'll be a run on Northern beans this week at the groceries!

[novamc1]

This is probably the most famous bean soup, still served daily in the U.S. Senate cafeteria and even available in cans from some stores.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/u-s--senate-bean-soup/print

[BeccaLou]

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@Patriot3wrote:

Does anyone have a recipe for Bean Soup?  My Mom made the best.  I know she started w/ham hocks and put rivels in it, but beyond that I don't know.  It was rather thick, not watery.  Of course, she had no recipe.  Sure wish I would have watched her make it and what she put in it.  She's gone now..........

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becca lou wrote: What are rivals ?

[BeccaLou]

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@Harpawrote:

No genuine recipe...but from what I remember, my DM used dried great Northerns and soaked them overnight; ham hocks like you said - threw all that into the pot, covered with water.

Cut up carrots, celery & onions and then a jar of her homemade canned tomatoes.

Always sherry in bean soup and bay leaves. (I don't recall sherry in anything else she made - or bay leaves!)

Just throw it all together and simmer, simmer, simmer!

I also don't recall any pasta. The beans help to thicken the soup.

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Becca lou wrote: I think small Ditilini noodles would be great in bean soup. Noodles to me make the soup .Can be found in any grocery store.

[Fiero Woman]

As a gal born in West Virginia, we never had bean soup, ever. With three brothers who were bottomless pits, It was a really big pot of pinto or great northern beans, ham hocks, chopped onion, bacon grease from the grease can on the stove, salt at the end cause Mom always said it would make the beans tough if salted too early. Beans soaked over night.  Big pans of cornbread made with buttermilk in cast iron skillets, fresh butter and onions from the garden or red onions in winter.  Chow chow if we hadn't eaten up all Mom had  canned, which wasn't hard to do.  Rice pudding with rasins from the oven.  Yum