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15 bean soup is a soup comprised of fifteen kinds of bean
Bean

Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genus of the Family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed.The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, can be tender enough to eat whole, whether cooked or raw....
, common in the United States, and having a history that goes back over a century. While people once mixed their own beans, today a mixture of the fifteen dried beans with standard seasonings is often purchased to start off the process, although this was possible even long ago, as attested to by mail-order catalogues from the first half of the 20th century.






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15 bean soup is a soup comprised of fifteen kinds of bean
Bean

Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genus of the Family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed.The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, can be tender enough to eat whole, whether cooked or raw....
, common in the United States, and having a history that goes back over a century. While people once mixed their own beans, today a mixture of the fifteen dried beans with standard seasonings is often purchased to start off the process, although this was possible even long ago, as attested to by mail-order catalogues from the first half of the 20th century. While the normal recipe includes ham
Ham

Ham is the thigh and rump of pork, cut from the haunch of a pig or boar. Although it may be cooked and served fresh, most ham is Curing in some fashion....
, it is a popular dish among vegetarians when prepared without meat.

15 bean soup retains a historic trait generally left behind by other soup recipes; it is considered best-tasting if cooked for, literally, days. "Peas porrige in the pot, nine days old" may no longer apply to split pea soup, but does to 15 bean soup.

The beans typically include a subset of this list:

  • black bean
    Black bean

    Black bean can mean:* The black turtle bean, a small, black variety of the common bean especially popular in Latin American cuisine* Douchi, a kind of Fermentation soybean especially popular in the cuisine of China...
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  • red bean
    Red bean

    Red bean can mean:* Azuki bean , most common in East Asia* Ricebean * Any of various red varieties of the common bean , including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean...
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  • kidney beans
  • navy beans
  • great northern beans
  • Various forms of lima bean
    • baby
    • green
    • white
  • pinto beans
  • Various forms of split pea
    Split pea

    Split peas are the dried peeled and split seeds of Pisum sativum. They come in yellow and green varieties. They have been mechanically split so that they will cook faster....
    • green
    • yellow
  • black-eyed pea
    Black-eyed pea

    The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, "??" , lobiya , feij?o-frade , b?r?lce , Chavali/???? ,thatta payir , alasandee , mavromatika , louvi , and d?u tr?ng , is a subspecies of the cowpea, grown around the world for its medium-sized edible bean....
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  • Various forms of lentil
    Lentil

    The lentil or daal or pulse is a bushy annual plant of the Fabaceae family, grown for its lens-shaped seeds. It is about 15 inches tall and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each....
    • red
    • green
    • brown
  • cranberry beans (shell beans)
  • chick peas (garbanzo beans)


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