Minestrone

Ingredients

• Chop 1/2 lb. of bacon
• wash and cut up a savoy cabbage
• 1/2 lb. of chopped raw ham
• 1 breakfast-cupful of haricot beans
• Pour in 5 or 6 pints of clear broth
• 1 teacupful of chopped celery
• an equal quantity of haricot beans
• about 1 teacupful of cabbage-stalk cut into small squares
• 1 teacupful each of broad Leans
• asparagus-heads
• green peas
• 1/2 lb. of unwashed rice
• two chopped smoked Milan sausages
• Grate 2oz. of Parmesan cheese

Method

1. 1

   Chop 1/2 lb. of bacon, wash and cut up a savoy cabbage, and put both into a stewpan with 1/2 lb. of chopped raw ham and 1 breakfast-cupful of haricot beans.

2. 2

   Pour in 5 or 6 pints of clear broth, and place the stewpan over the fire.

3. 3

   After ten minutes of gentle boiling, add 1 teacupful of chopped celery, an equal quantity of haricot beans, and about 1 teacupful of cabbage-stalk cut into small squares.

4. 4

   Boil these for ten minutes, then mix in 1 teacupful each of broad beans, asparagus-heads, and green peas, 1/2 lb. of unwashed rice, and two chopped smoked Milan sausages, and continue simmering gently at the side of the fire until the rice is tender.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 514. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MENESTRONE. — A favourite Italian stew, re- sembling Menestra, much approved of in Milan, where it is made as follows : Chop ilb. of bacon, wash and cut up a savoy cabbage, and put both into a stewpan with fdb of chopped raw ham and 1 breakfast-cupful of haricot beans. Pour in 5 or 6 pints of clear broth, and place the stewpan over the fire. After ten minutes, gentle boiling, add 1 teacupful of chopped celery, an equal quantity of haricot beans, and about 1 teacupful of cabbage-stalk cut into small squares. Boil these for ten minutes, then mix in 1 teacupful each of broad Leans, asparagus -heads, and green peas, fib. of un- washed rice, and two chopped smoked Milan sausages, and continue simmering gently at the side of the fire until the rice is tender. Grate 2oz. of Parmesan cheese

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