Milk Soup (Potato Stew)

Ingredients

• three large potatoes
• 2 table-spoonfuls of dripping
• H pints of Milk
• 2oz. of seed-sago
• 2 saltspoonfuls of salt
• 1 saltspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Peel and wash three large potatoes, put them in a saucepan with cold water to cover, and place them over the fire until the water boils, then pour it off.

2. 2

   Put 2 table-spoonfuls of dripping in with the potatoes, and place the saucepan over the fire; stir until the dripping has melted, then move the saucepan to the edge of the fire, pour in 0.5 pints of boiling water, add 2 saltspoonfuls of salt and 1 saltspoonful of pepper, and stew the potatoes for half-an-hour.

3. 3

   At the end of that time, rub the potatoes and their cooking-liquor through a fine wire sieve; return all to the saucepan with 0.5 pint of Milk, and stir in 2oz. of seed-sago.

4. 4

   Place the saucepan over the fire and continue stirring the contents until boiling, then move it to the edge and boil slowly for fifteen minutes.

5. 5

   Turn the soup into a soup-tureen, and serve it with a plate of sippets of toast or croûtons of bread fried brown in butter.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 531. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

h pint of Milk without letting it boil, then let it cool, and when cool add and stir into it Jib. of flour and 1 table-spoonful of sugar mixed with 2 table- spoonfuls of yeast. Put Jib. of flour and a very little salt into a basin, make a hollow in the centre, and pour in the mixture ; cover, and let it stand in a moderately warm place all night. Next day work in loz. of butter warmed quite soft and let it stand for six hours in a warm place. Fig. 1179. Milk Kolls. Form the dough into oblong rolls, lay them in a corru- gated baking-tin, too far apart from one another to run together, and let them stand for three hours longer, then bake in a quick oven, and glaze with white of egg. See Fig. 1179. Milk Soup.— (1) Mix h teacupful of flour smoothly with 2qts. of Milk, pour it into a lined saucepan, put in three or four peach-leaves, and sweeten to taste with loaf sugar. Stir it over the fire with a wooden spoon, boil for five minutes, then move it to the side. Separate the yolks and whites of three eggs, beat the yolks, and stir them into the soup ; whisk the whites of the eggs to a stitt' froth together with 3 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar. Turn the soup into a soup-tureen, drop the whisked whites in small table-spoonfuls on the top of it, dust over a small quantity of powdered cinnamon, and serve. (2) Put 2lb. of peeled potatoes and a couple of leeks or onions in a saucepan with igall. of water and boil until tender. Pass them through a sieve and put them all back as a puree into the saucepan. Add 2oz. of butter, and, when melted, pour in 1 pint of Milk, with salt and pepper to taste. Stir the mixture frequently while over the fire, and when it boils add 6 table-spoonfuls of powdered tapioca ; boil for ten minutes longer, and it is ready for use. (3) Put a cow-heel or knuckle of veal into a saucepan with a chopped onion, carrot, and turnip, pour over Agall. of Milk, and season with whole pepper and mace. Let the soup simmer gently for two hours, strain it into another saucepan, thicken with 1 table-spoonful of cornflour mixed smoothly with a little cold Milk, then add salt to taste. Cut off all the meat from the cow-heel, chop it into small squares or dice, put them into the soup, and serve ; or the cow-heel may be served separately with parsley-and- butter sauce. Milk — continued. (4) Make a good strong stock of veal or an old fowl, strain, set it to cool, and then skim off the fat. Put it over the fire again and boil in it a little rice, macaroni, or vermicelli : add, when this is boiled soft, a lump of sugar and 1 teaspoonful of orange-flower water. Mix the beaten yolks of five eggs with 1 pint of Milk or cream, warm it over the fire till it begins to thicken, then add to the stock, pour it into the tureen, and serve. (5) Blanch and pound half-a-dozen bitter almonds, put them into a saucepan with 2qts. of Milk, and boil ; sweeten to taste, and add a small pinch of salt. Whisk the whites and yolks of four eggs separately, then mix them ; remove the saucepan containing the boiling Milk from the fire, and as soon as the bubbling ceases, whisk in the eggs until a froth appears. Pour it at once into a bowl, and serve. Sweet sponge biscuits should accompany this. (6) Peel and wash three large potatoes, put them in a saucepan with cold water to cover, and place them over the fire until the water boils, then pour it off. Put 2 table-spoonfuls of dripping in with the potatoes, and place the saucepan over the fire ; stir until the dripping lias melted, then move the saucepan to the edge of the fire, pour in H pints of boiling water, add 2 saltspoonfuls of salt and 1 saltspoonful of pepper, and stew the potatoes for half-an-hour. At the end of that time, rub the potatoes and their cooking-liquor through a fine wire sieve ; return all to the saucepan with f pint of Milk, and stir in 2oz. of seed-sago

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