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Sweet Potato Soup (Rapp) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

1 1/4 lb Sweet potato, diced, peeled

3 Carrots, chopped

1 lg Celery stalk, chopped

1 Bay leaf

6 c Water

2 tb Lemon juice

1 ts Hungarian sweet paprika

Put all vegetables with the bay leaf in a soup pot. Add water & bring to a boil. Simmer for about one hour. Stir occasionally. Just befroe serving, add lemon juice & paprika. Remove bay leaf. Joel Rapp, "Mother Earth's Vegetarian Feasts"

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