Potato Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pkg. bacon
salt
pepper
5 lb. potatoes
1 onion
1/2 gal. milk
1/4 c. flour

Preparation

Peel and cube potatoes; boil until they are almost done. Drain.
Dice the onion; add to potatoes.
Remove the majority of fat from the bacon.
Dispose of fat.
Fry the bacon.
Remove the bacon; add to potatoes.
Using the grease from the bacon, create a roux with the 1/4 cup of flour.
Add 4 cups of milk.
Allow to thicken.
Pour into potatoes.
Add remainder of milk, salt and pepper to taste.
Simmer 30 minutes.