Available in Large (Serves 4)  

You will need:

• 15 oz. Can Tomato Sauce
• 1/2 lb Italian Sausage

Includes:

• Tortellini

li>1 Beef Broth Packet

• 1 Spice packet

Directions:

1. In a 4 Quart saucepan brown sausage and drain fat.
2. Add 7 cups water and both spice packets, bring to a boil.
3. Add tomato sauce and tortellini noodles. Return to a boil.
4. Reduce to low, cover and cook for 30 minutes or until noodles are tender.
5. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve.

Crockpot Directions:
Ad7 C. water, the entire soup mix, tomato sauce and meat to the slow cooker. Cook on low for 2.5 to 5 hours. Salt and pepper to taste. The longer you leave the soup in the slow cooker the more the noodles will expand. Enjoy!

Instant Pot Directions:
Reduce water by 1 cup. Add water, soup mix, tomato and meat to Instant Pot. Lock the lid and seal the valve, set to Soup Mode, or High Pressure. Cook for 10 minutes, allow the pressure to release naturally.

Cooking Variations:

Add-on: Serve with bread stick or homemade pretzels
Vegetable Overload: 10-15 minutes before the soup is finished, add add 1-2 C zucchini mushrooms, or bell peppers.
Mix up the Meat: Use Kielbasa, ground turkey or beef
Mix up the Tomato: Replace tomato sauce with 8-oz. can chopped or Italian stewed tomatoes.
Vegetarian: Prepare without meat, if desired, add meat substitute.
Dress it up: Top with grated cheese or parmesan.

Thorp is an agricultural community nestled among the rolling hills in Central Washington. In 1878, the railroad named Thorp after one of its first settlers, Mortimer Thorp. It is a magnificent area of fertile, well-irrigated land. Irrigation was established as early as 1873 by the Taneum Ditch Company, and then the West Side Canal was built in 1889.

A sawmill, powered by water, was built in 1879, and in 1907 an electric plant was installed there. This gave Thorp the distinction of being the smallest, unincorporated town in the northwest to have electric lights. The North Star Flour Mill also produced flour and other grain products beginning in 1883.

Many other businesses included two general stores, a fine hotel, drug store and doctor’s office, meat market, blacksmith shop, ice house, shoemaker, 14 saloons, a dance hall, a confectionery, wooden box factory, theater, creamery, post office, and public schools.

Today, Thorp is a quiet rural community with a population of about 200 people. The North Star mill is now the Thorp Grist Mill Museum with much of the original equipment displayed and well worth visiting. Look online at www.thorp.org.

Thorpellini tortellini soup is the original soup that thrust Rill Foods into the packaged soup market. They are a family-owned and operated business, located in the small town of Thorp, WA.