Mom's Best Potato Soup

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 3 slices bacon, uncooked and chopped
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 ounce brandy
• 1 ounce wine
• 1 quart water
• 1/8 cup parsley, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 lb red potatoes, cubed (leave skins on)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 pint whipping cream
• 1/2 pint half-and-half

Recipe

• 1 saute onion with bacon and carrots.
• 2 add pepper, thyme, brandy, and wine. heat for a couple minutes.
• 3 add water and bring to a boil.
• 4 add parsley, salt and potatoes. cook until potatoes are barely tender.
• 5 in another pan, make roux. (for roux: melt butter, add flour. stir together and cook low for 10 minutes. it will make a kind of paste.).
• 6 add roux to soup: take a little soup, about 1/2 cup, and add to roux first, keep stirring; pour into soup when roux is thick and runny.
• 7 simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally.
• 8 add whipping cream and half & half. do not boil! simmer until thickened.
• 9 serve with grated cheddar cheese.