Dried Bean Soup

Soak 1 pint beans over night, boil in 2 quarts cold water. When this boils pour it off and replace with 2 quarts fresh boiling water; simmer for 3 hours. The last hour add celery tips and few rings of sliced onion. Put through colander, mashing beans to a paste; return to the fire and when it boils up again add 1 pint hot milk and 1 tablespoonful butter.