Baked Bean Soup

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This is a recipe I began cooking last winter. We LOVE this. It is so easy and SO good. If you are a fan of good old fashion baked beans, you will adore this.
It comes from my favorite lady...Paula Deen. It is in her cookbook, "The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook"

Confederate Bean Soup
serves 3 or 4

1/2 lb. Hillshire Farms smoked sausage, sliced in round 1/4 inch thick
2 slices bacon, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 medium onion, diced
1 tbs. butter
2 cups leftover baked beans OR 16ox can of Bush's baked beans
1 1/2 cups half-and-half

Saute' sausage, bacon, garlic, onion and pepper in butter until bacon is cooked. Add beans and simmer for a few minutes over medium to low heat. Add half-and-half. Increase or decrease half-and-half for preferred thickness.

Enjoy... it is fantastic on a cold evening with some crusty bread.

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This post originally posted on Oct. 30, 2008