Potage a la Conde

Ingredients

• a half pint of butter beans
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 shallot, sliced
• 3 cloves
• 1 bayleaf
• a tablespoonful of salt
• water
• 1 lb. of butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak butter beans in cold water overnight.

2. 2

   Boil beans with onion, shallot, cloves, bay leaf, and salt for about 3.5 hours.

3. 3

   Pass through a sieve, rub the beans through, return liquid to saucepan, add butter, bring to boil, and serve with croutons.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potage a la Conde. — Soak a half pint of butter beans in cold water all night. Slice 1 onion, 1 shallot, 3 cloves, 1 bayleaf, a tablespoonful of salt, and boil all together with the beans for about 3J hours. Pass the whole through a wire sieve, and rub the beans through with a wooden spoon ; return all the liquid to the saucepan, adding 1 lb. of butter

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