Recipe#12859

Title: Baked Potato Soup 02

From: Cindy alexbird@centuryinter.net 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking 
 Subject: Baked potato soup 
 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:29 -0600 
 Message-ID: <32DD8311.6276@centuryinter.net> 

4 large potatoes
 2/3 cup butter
 2/3 cup flour
 1 1/2 quarts of milk 
 salt
 pepper
 4 green onions, chopped
 1 cup sour cream 
 2 cups crisp-cooked crumbled bacon 
 5 ounces grated cheddar cheese
 Bake potatoes in Microwave until tender.  Melt butter in a medium
 saucepan.  Slowly blend in flour with a wire whisk until thoroughly
 blended.  Gradually add milk to the butter-flour mixture, whisking
 constantly.  Whisk in salt and pepper and simmer over low heat, 
 stirring constantly.
 Cut potatoes in small chunks.  When milk mixture is very hot,
 whisk in potatos.  Add green onion, sour cream and crumbled bacon.
 Heat thoroughly.  Add cheese a little at a time until it is all  
 melted in.