Washday Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 bag navy beans
1 large finely minced onion
1/2 c. coffee
1/2 c. minced carrots
ham or bacon (to season with)
salt (as you desire)

Preparation

Put navy beans in a big pot of salted water to soak overnight. Put on to cook about six in the morning, the same time you start your wash water.
Boil with bacon or ham.
Let cook on low burner and check in between loads of wash.
Add your onion at daylight before you hang out the overalls.
About 9 o'clock, have a quick cup of coffee and dump 1/2 cup in the beans.
Add carrots at bleach time, around eleven.
Serve at noon with soda crackers or cornbread and slaw you made the night before.