Slow Cooker Potato Soup

Total Time: 6 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 8 medium potatoes
• 1 cup ham, diced
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups butter (may be reduced to 1 cup)
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups water
• 2 cups milk (warm milk works best, see directions)

Recipe

• 1 place all the ingredients except the milk into a slow cooker for 4-6 hours on low.
• 2 add warm milk 30 minutes before serving. cold milk will stop the cooking process and delay meal. do not add sooner because the milk may curdle.
• 3 to thicken soup, add instant potato flakes to taste. you may use potato pearls but you will have to stir the soup a lot more to get the pearls to desolve.