Chili - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 lb. hamburger
2 gal. red kidney beans
3 qt. canned tomatoes
5 (10 1/2 oz.) cans tomato soup (condensed type)
1/2 small bottle catsup
3 c. chopped onion
4 c. chopped celery
3 or 4 tsp. salt
pepper to taste
1 1/4 tsp. chili powder (or more to taste)

Preparation

Fry onion and celery in a little butter or margarine very slowly, but do not brown.
Fry hamburger very slowly and do not brown.
Mix all together and cook slowly for 4 hours or more, after adding all other ingredients.
If too thick, thin with tomato juice.
Stir often so as not to burn.
This recipe will feed a crowd.