Croutons

Ingredients

• slices of stale bread
• spread with butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut slices of stale bread one-quarter inch thick, remove crusts and spread with butter.

2. 2

   Place on a baking tin cut into quarter-inch strips and then into quarter-inch dice.

3. 3

   Bake until golden brown in the oven.

4. 4

   Serve on a doily on a hot plate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Girl's home manual of cookery, home management, home nursing and laundry (1913) by Annie Bessie Juniper, British Columbia. Ministry of Education, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

croutons. Split Pea Soup. 1 pint split peas. Zu oz. baconsiat zorsham. fat, 1 onion. Zurat bspy isalt. 1 small carrot. one-sixth tsp. pepper. y% turnip. 1 tbsp. powdered mint. 4 outer stalks of celery. 2 tbsp. each of butter and flour. 3 quarts water or stock. Y% pint milk if desired. Look over the peas, remove black ones. Wash in several waters and soak peas over night. Put peas, prepared vegetables, bacon cut up (a ham bone may be used instead), salt, pepper and cold water in a large saucepan. Boil gently four hours, rub through strainer, reheat, bind with butter and flour rubbed together, stir and boil 5 minutes, and add hot milk to thin if necessary. On each plate of soup a little powdered mint should be sprinkled. Serve with croutons. The flavour of this soup is improved if the vegetables (except peas) are first sweated in the bacon fat. Green Pea Soup. Ieee pinteoritin Of peas, 1 sprig mint. Y% tbsp. sugar. Zeeecups milic. 3. cups cold water. 2 slices onion. 1 tsp. salt. 2 tbsp. butter. lg tsp. pepper. 2) otbsp.2 flour: Cook peas, sugar, mint, salt, pepper and water half an hour. Add a handful of pea pods in summer. Rub the whole through a strainer. Reheat in saucepan, when boiling add flour and butter mixed together, stir and cook five minutes. Scald milk with onion and add to peas. Serve with croutons. Croutons. Cut slices of stale bread one-quarter inch thick, remove crusts and spread with butter

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