Cucumber or Marrow Soup

Ingredients

• a large cucumber
• about 2 quarts of good stock
• an onion
• a sprig of parsley
• 1 oz. of butter
• 1 oz. of flour
• the yolk of an egg
• a little lemon-juice
• a spoonful of cream
• some dice of cucumber

Method

1. 1

   Peel and soak cucumber in cold water.

2. 2

   Cut into pieces and simmer with stock, onion, parsley, salt, and pepper until tender.

3. 3

   Strain, fry butter and flour, add puree, and adjust consistency with milk.

4. 4

   Add yolk, lemon juice, and cream before serving with boiled cucumber dice.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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