Main | African | American | Appetizers | Asian | Baby and Kid | Bakery, Cookies and Candies | BBQ, Grill | Breakfast | Desserts, Ice Cream | Drinks, Wine and Liquor | European | Holiday Specials | Latin American, Mexican | Lunch | Main Entries | Microwave, Home Made | Salads, Salad Dressings | Soups, Noodles, Stew and Steam | Vegetables, Healthy Foods   Creamed cranberry bean soup   Yield: 8 Servings   1/2 lb Dried cranberry beans      1 lb Kolbasz 4 qt Water      4 Peppercorns 1/2 Onion; diced MMMMM----------------------------ROUX---------------------------------      1 tb Bacon drippings 1 tb Flour      1 Onion; minced MMMMM-------------------------THICKENER------------------------------ 1/2 pt Sour cream      1 tb Flour  Wash beans. Soak overnight and cook with kolbasz in a soup kettle along with onion and salt and peppercorns to taste. When beans and meat are cooked make roux: Brown roux ingred. til brown in color and add 1 c. water; bring to a boil. Add this to soup and cook about 5 minutes until soup comes back to a boil. Take 1/2 pt. sour cream which is at room temperature. Mix in 1 tb. flour to thicken. To sour cream add hot soup 1 tablespoon at a time and mix well until cream is thinned then add to hot soup (prevents curdling). Bring back to gentle boil then turn heat off.