McGuire’s Senate Bean Soup

Ingredients

• 1 pound dried navy beans
• 4 pints water
• 1 bay leaf
• 3 whole cloves
• 1 ham bone large, preferably with bits of meat left on it
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 stalks celery including leaves, roughly chopped, I prefer smaller pieces of celery and carrots
• 2 large carrots peeled and chopped
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 16 freshly ground black pepper turns
• cheese cloth

Nutrition

• Calories : 80 calories
• Carbohydrate : 13 grams
• Cholesterol : 5 milligrams
• Fat : 2 grams
• Fiber : 1 grams
• Protein : 6 grams
• SaturatedFat : 1 grams
• Sodium : 570 milligrams
• Sugar : 2 grams