Bean Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. soup beans
6 c. water
2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 cloves garlic
4 slices bacon
2 medium onions, chopped
1 small green pepper, chopped
1/2 c. fined chopped carrots
1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce

Preparation

Cover
beans with water.
Add first 4 ingredients. Cook bacon until
crisp, remove bacon; reserve drippings.
Crumble bacon
and set
aside.
Add
onions and green pepper to drippings.
Saute until
tender.
Add
onion,
green
pepper
and carrots
to beans. Bring to a boil.
Cover and simmer 1 hour. Add
tomato
sauce. Cover and simmer an additional 30 minutes or until tender. Sprinkle bacon over soup when served.