White-Bean Soup with Bacon and Herbs

Adding 3 tablespoons of the reserved bacon fat into soup didn't work. It made the soup really greasy. Most of the time I refrigerate my homemade broth to set the fat and remove it from the top before using. Adding bacon grease back in seemed counter-intuitive, but I followed the directions. It didn't turn out well and I'll not follow that advice in the future.

A family favorite3 cans of great northern, rinsed and draineddoubled the garlic / bay leaves8 cups of stockdash of red pepper flakesthick cut black peppered baconMrs Dash in lieu of saltall else per recipe

This was really good! I halved it. I used two cans of cannellini beans, drained and rinsed. Also, I like soups like this pureed. When I make it again, I will decrease the stock from five cups (half of recipe) to four cups so it stays a little thicker.