Bean soup has been offered on the U.S. Senate dining room menu every day since 1903. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: For one day in 1943, the kitchen ran out of the soup during a bean ...

The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists two bean recipe soup recipes on its website: The Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup Recipe (serves 8): 2 pounds dried navy beans 4 quarts hot water 1 1/2 ...

Another says that Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, expressing his fondness for the soup in 1903, simply loved the stuff and insisted it be his lunch every day. The senators’ variations on the recipe ...

A few noticeable changes have been made between the original and Soup ‘n Fresh: Wonton Happiness is now called Asian chicken salad, while U.S. Senate Bean with smoked ham soup goes simply by chili.

My soup came together fast. Not as fast as canned soup, but it tasted far, far better. Give it a try. • Don Mauer welcomes questions, comments and recipe makeover requests.

Curiously, a dish called Senate bean soup has been served in the Capitol Hill dining room for 110 years. Legend has it that the soup is made from the recipe of one Padraig McGraith, a homesick ...

There’s also a House Bean Soup angling to give the more famous Senate Bean Soup a run for its money. Samantha Carter, spokesperson for the House’s Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, which is ...

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