Vegetable Soup(Lonaconing Style) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

soup bone
approximately 1 lb. beef cubes
1/3 c. lima beans
1/3 c. soup beans
1/3 c. barley
2 carrots
2 potatoes
1 large onion
1 stick celery
1/4 cabbage, cut fine
1 can tomato sauce
1 can or bag frozen mixed vegetables
salt to taste

Preparation

Soak beans overnight.
In a large cook pot, add about a quart of water, beef cubes and soup bone, soup beans and lima beans. Cook slowly about 2 hours.
Remove soup bone.
Add barley, tomato sauce and salt.
Cook about 1/2 hour.
Add diced carrots and onion (stir often to keep barley from sticking); add potatoes and cabbage.
When these vegetables are done, add the mixed vegetables last and finish cooking about 15 minutes.
Add water if too thick.