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Directions:Peel and cut potatoes into 3/4 inch squares. Dice onion and add to potatoes in sauce pan. Cover potatoes and onion with water and bring to boil. Turn down and continue to cook until potatoes are tender. Drain some of the water, add milk to cover potatoes or to the consistency you want. Put back onto burner and warm, add salt and pepper and put butter in when the soup is hot. Serve with crackers or warm homemade bread/rolls. |
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Notes: Mama made this soup often, it makes good use of potatoes and milk and provides a warm lunch. She served this with crackers that we could smother in butter or bread/rolls served with butter and jelly. Usually her spiced peach jam, at least that was my favorite. Mama made jelly from kool aid or fruits she canned. She seldom, if ever, bought jelly. She bought margarine, she could have made butter with the milk she got from the Wrights, when Daddy milked for them, but we needed the milk for drinking and she just stirred the cream in rather than skim off for butter. It was cheaper to buy a .20 pound of margarine than a gallon of whole milk. I'm pretty sure they didn't sell 2% or fat free then. :) I don't remember where we got it, when we didn't have milk from the ranch. I know we had a Kelly's Creamery here and Daddy brought home odd flavors of ice cream, but I don't remember getting milk from there. Mama didn't make crackers either, although I'm sure she could have. The crackers were in pieces of 4 individual crackers connected to make a square of crackers rather than the long sleeve we get now. They were wrapped in a wax square of paper. I remember buttering the large square and braking them into 4 equal squares, unless of course I buttered too hard them the pieces broke but not in squares, lots of crumbs on the table. The butter was always hard from the refrigerator, so it was easy to break crackers or tear holes in bread. We never got bored with our meals. Mama used what she had, and didn't add many seasoning other than salt and pepper. She usually put out the gems from the garden. I loved her pickled beets. Donna and JoAnn, on the other hand, weren't crazy about them and could have had a meal without them. :) She put them on the table, with a fork in the jar, cause her jars sparkled and a bowl couldn't have been any prettier.
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