1908 Black Bean Soup

1908 Black Bean Soup
Famous Old Receipts
Contributed by Mrs. Charles A. Farnum, Philadelphia, Pa.
1½ pint beans *unsoaked
1 tsp summer savory
1 onion
1 lemon sliced
4 eggs boiled hard
½ tumbler wine
½ cup tomato catsup
One and one-half pint of beans *if you do not soak them over night, 1 pint if you do, 1 teaspoon summer savory, 1 onion, if you like, a small bit of pork and boil with a beef bone, turkey or chicken bones. Put in your soup dish 1 lemon sliced, 4 eggs boiled hard and sliced, ½ tumbler wine, ½ of a large cup tomato catsup.
Did we eat it? Most of it.
Would I make it again? Probably not.
Notes: Tasted more like baked beans.