On Apr 16, 4:44*pm, KevinS > wrote:
> On Apr 16, 11:28*am, Damsel in dis Dress > wrote:
>
> > I was going after the Campbell's bean soup taste when I put this
> > together. *
>
> Nice to hear from you, by the way. My bean soup recipe is
> pretty close to yours except for using a smoked ham shank
> and chicken stock or broth fifty-fifty with water.

A friend of the family buys breakfast bacon by the slabs, and slices
and freezes the bacon. She buys it with the rind still on. The rind
she uses (along with appropriate vegetables; bouquet garni) to make a
bacon stock. This stock she uses as the liquid for her bean soup.
It's pretty good. She doesn't use ham in it (which I think would
improve the flavour) and makes kind of a chowder, plopping diced
potato in there.