McGuire’s Senate Bean Soup Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 pound dried navy beans
4 pints water
1 bay leaf
3 whole cloves
1 large ham bone, preferably with bits of meat left on it
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 stalks of celery, including leaves, roughly chopped
2 large carrots, peeled and chopped
11/2 teaspoons salt
16 turns freshly ground black pepper
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Directions:Rinse the beans and place in a large bowl. Add the water and let the beans soak overnight, covered.
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When ready to start cooking, drain the beans and place in a large pot with the ham bone. Add cold water to cover, plus an additional two inches. Bring to a boil.
Meanwhile make a cheesecloth pouch containing the bay leaf and cloves. When the water is boiling add the pouch, onion, celery, carrots, salt and pepper.
Reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook stirring occasionally, until the beans are tender and the meat is falling off the bone, about 3 hours.
Remove the pouch and the bone.
Shred the meat and add it back to the soup before serving. |
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Notes: There’s a story behind this soup. In the 1920s, an Irish immigrant from County Claire named Padraig McGraith was employed in the United States Senate cafeteria as a dishwasher. Washington, D.C., was a long way from the Emerald Isle, and Padraig missed the hearty soups and stews of home. He also had 11 children, and needed to stretch his grocery budget as much as possible.
The chefs in the Senate kitchen would listen to Paddy’s homesick laments, and finally decided to ask him how to make an authentic and hearty soup. Paddy assembled the ingredients from what was at hand. Paddy was so sure that the head chef would love his soup that he bet a day’s pay it would be a hit — and it was! Paddy made 18 cents a day at the time, and the cost of the soup has never gone up since 1977, when McGuire’s opened its doors. In Paddy McGraith’s honor, we offer you his Senate Bean Soup today at he same fair price.
Paddy’s children never went hungry, and his legacy lives on.
McGuire’s Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. Destin, Florida 433-6789
www.mcguiresirishpub.com.
McGuire’s Senate Bean Soup
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