Slow Cooker Potato Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 medium potatoes
1 cup ham, diced
1 large onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups butter (may be reduced to 1 cup)
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
4 cups water
2 cups milk (warm milk works best, see directions)

Preparation

Place all the ingredients except the milk into a slow cooker for 4-6 hours on low.
Add warm milk 30 minutes before serving. Cold milk will stop the cooking process and delay meal. Do not add sooner because the milk may curdle.
To thicken soup, add instant potato flakes to taste. You may use potato pearls but you will have to stir the soup a lot more to get the pearls to desolve.