A Delicious Soup

Ingredients

• six large onions
• six potatoes
• six carrots
• four turnips
• half a pound of butter
• four quarts of boiling water
• a spoonful of tomato catsup

Method

1. 1

   Fry the onions, potatoes, carrots, and turnips in butter.

2. 2

   Pour boiling water over them and add toasted bread, celery, herbs, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Stew gently for four hours, then strain and add sliced vegetables to the soup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A Delicious Soup. “ Peel and slice six large onions, six potatoes, six carrots, and four turnips ; fry them in half a pound of butter, and pour on them four quarts of boiling water. Toast a crust of bread as brown and hard as possible, but do not burn it, and put it in, with some celery, sweet herbs, white pepper, and salt. Stew it all gently for four hours, and then strain it through a coarse cloth. Plave ready thinly sliced carrot, CROUTONS. II celery, and a little turnip. Add them to your liking, and stew them tender in the soup. If approved of, a spoonful of tomato catsup

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