Gladys Osborne's SECRET and famous Potato Soup

 When I realized that my mom didn't have a recipe for this, a number of years ago, I stood with her as she made it and measured everything so often I wasn't sure if we were going to ever get the soup made but finally we did.  I kept her secret recipe secret until she died and then I didn't want the wonderful soup lost. I compiled her recipes and this had to be in the cookbook which has been given to her friends and some of mine

25    potatoes, peeled and cubed

6    onions, finely chopped

3     sticks margarine or butter

2 t    salt

2 t    pepper (I'd suggest starting with 1t til you decide how much you want..my mom loved pepper

16 T flour

2qt    milk

1. cook the cubed potatoes in salted water til BARELY soft.  Drain

2.  Use 2 pans using half the ingredients. Put 1-1/2 stick of butter in each pan and melt   Add the onions and cook. Add salt, pepper Turn off heat

3.  Add 8 T. flour per pan and still til thickened

4.  Add 1 qt milk per pan. Stir.  this will be soupy til it thickens,  Turn ON heat. Simmer and watch as it starts to thicken (need to cook the flour).  You will notice steam rising.  Do not allow to burn.

5.  Taste - add salt and pepper as needed.

6.  Add the drained potatoes to the milk roux. See if you need to make more roux. Do this in a separate pan and add to the main soup.

SERVES 10