Sybil's Quick Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 1.250 millilitre sugar beans, soaked overnight in boiling water
• 2.56 gram butter, or 4 tablespoons / 60 ml oil
• 3.1 carrot, grated
• 4.1 onion, grated
• 5.1 turnip, grated
• 6.4 tomatoes, ripe; peeled and sliced
• 7.1.5 litre beef stock, use 3 cubes; approximately 1½ litres
• 8.2 bay leaves
• 9.black peppercorns, a few
• 10.15 millilitre tomato paste
• 11.8 millilitre salt
• 12.3 millilitre black pepper, ground

Method

1. 1.Cover the beans with boiling water and leave to soak overnight.
2. 2.Melt the butter and gently fry the carrot, onion and turnip.
3. 3.Add the tomatoes and cook a further 5 minutes.
4. 4.Add the stock, the beans and the seasonings. Cook 2–3 hours.
5. 5.Readjust seasoning and serve.

Notes

• prep_minutes includes overnight soaking (480 min = 8 hours).
• Appears on the same card as Beulah's Easy Bean Soup (beulahs-easy-bean-soup.yaml).
• Despite the name, this still requires 2–3 hours cooking — 'quick' refers to the simplified method compared to the full Bean Soup (bean-soup.yaml).