Mom's Corn Chowder

The weather finally cooled off a little here so I jumped on the chance to make my favorite soup! Hubby is out of town so it just means more for me! I will be eating this for the next few days...bring on the stormy weather!

Ingredients
Bacon - Saute and crumble (however much you want as a garnish for your soup)
1 medium Onion, chopped
3-4 potatoes peeled and diced
1 cup white sauce mix*
2 cans cream style corn
1 tsp salt
dash of pepper
2 cups milk

Add 3 TBSP bacon drippings to pan and saute onions in it until translucent. Add potatoes and enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes or until potatoes are cooked. Combine milk and white sauce mix in separate pan and cook over low heat until thick and creamy, stirring constantly. (takes me about 10 min or so) Stir in cream corn and salt & pepper. Add to potato mixture (if all the water hasn't cooked out of potatoes, drain a little). Heat through about 10 minutes. Top with bacon!

*White sauce mix:
2 cups powdered milk
1 cup flour
2 tsp salt
1 cup butter
Combine dry milk, flour, salt. Mix well. Cut butter into mixture. Put in air tight container and store in refrigerator. (I just put it all in my food processor and pulsed it until the butter was all cut in and it was mixed well) took just a few minutes.

**My notes:
I don't usually use bacon drippings because I make this soup all the time and don't usually have bacon...I will eat it without bacon on top, although that makes it really good. I just use butter. Also, once I put the potatoes on to boil, I start the white sauce mix and milk and they usually finish around the same time. I usually make this in the early afternoon and combine the white sauce/cream corn mixture with the potatoes in a slow cooker and let it sit on low or warm for a few hours.