The Odessa Record -

Frosty nights bring on clean-up-the-garden time. Some fortunate gardeners gained an abundance of green beans after the hot summer temperatures subsided. Former Odessa resident Sherie Heimbigner asked if I had the recipe for the green bean soup served at the annual Mennonite Auction. I do not have the Mennonite recipe but I shared with her the recipe I have used.

German Grun Bohne Suppe [editor’s note: or in grammatically correct modern German, “gruene Bohnensuppe”] attributed to Katherine Wilcox in Kuche Kochen, compiled by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, is a...