Great Grandma's Potato Soup

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb bacon
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 stalks celery, cut into 1/4-inch slices
• 3 large potatoes
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup flour
• 6 cups milk
• 1 cup chopped fresh green beans

Recipe

• 1 in medium frying pan cook bacon till almost fully cooked. add chopped onion, celery finish cooking till onion becomes translucent and a little brown around edges. transfer to paper towel to let drain off excess grease.
• 2 boil potatoes till almost cooked though (still a little firm).
• 3 in large soup pot melt butter, add flower to make roux. (note: remove from heat so not to burn roux). add milk put back on heat. stirring constantly till milk thickens.
• 4 chop bacon into small pieces.
• 5 add to soup pot bacon, onion, potatoes celery, and beans.
• 6 simmer 10 minutes.