Wash Day Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

navy beans
salted water
bacon or ham
1 large finely chopped onion
1/2 c. finely chopped carrots
rice
soda crackers

Preparation

Put navy beans in a big pot of salted water to soak overnight. Put on the same time you do your wash water, about six in the morning, with the bacon or ham.
Let cook, uncovered, on low burner.
Check between loads of wash.
Add chopped onion at eight when you are bluing the overalls.
At nine have a quick cup of coffee and dump 1/2 a cup in the beans.
Add chopped carrots at bleach time (about 11:00).
Serve at noon over rice with soda crackers.