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(Alex Rast) wrote:
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> Undoubtedly that would be an improvement over stuff made from a can,
> if you liked that sort of concoction. But it's not just the
> processed-food-use that repulses me. The very *concept* of GBC sounds
> foul to me. Green beans and cream? Ugh! Green beans and onions?
> Double Ugh! Cream and onions? Triple Ugh!

How about this?
* Exported from MasterCook Mac *

Green Bean Soup

Recipe By : Posted to r.f.cooking by Barb Schaller 12-01-04
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Soups

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1 # fresh green beans -- in 3/4² pieces
4 cups chicken stock
2 tsp. salt (I don¹t use it)
1 clove garlic -- on a toothpick
1 tsp. vinegar
2 Tbsp. butter
1 small onion -- chopped fine
1 tsp. paprika
2 Tbsp. chopped parsley
2 Tbsp. flour
1/4 cup sour cream -- at room temperature

Cook beans, salt, vinegar and garlic in chicken stock about 15 minutes.
Remove from heat. Make roux from everything else except sour cream.
Dilute with 1 cup bean broth, then stir back into beans and broth.
Simmer 10 minutes until tender. Remove the garlic. Mix 2 tablespoons
soup into the sour cream then pour back into soup. Do not boil.
Correct the seasoning.
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Per serving (excluding unknown items): 90 Calories; 6g Fat (65% calories
from fat); 2g Protein; 6g Carbohydrate; 14mg Cholesterol; 1477mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 1/2 Vegetable; 1 Fat

NOTES : Source: Marge, 9/17/94. Pretty tasty! Not as sour as Mom¹s
Green Bean Soup --cream did not curdle. Ate the first batch I made all
by myself -- had to make more.

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> Frankly, to me it sounds like a desperation tactic used by some housewife
> as a stopgap measure, trying to use items on hand to cover an unplanned
> situation (a planned dish was ruined, company unexpectedly dropped over,
> some necessary ingredient for something else wasn't to be had, ran out of
> money and needed to feed the family *something*).

Nah, I think it was a move by the FrenchFriedOnionBits people to use
their product. A whole can of their product. Preferably a whole can
plus a little more so you'd have to buy two cans.
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.