Potage Alexandrina

Ingredients

• a cup of raw rice
• a quart of green peas
• a large turnip
• a large squash
• a large celery
• a piece of lean salt pork

Method

1. 1

   Set the strained soup stock over the fire with the rice, peas, turnip, squash, celery, kohl-rabi, leaks, and onions.

2. 2

   Cook the vegetables soft, then pass them, the rice, and the stock together through a strainer.

3. 3

   Prepare a small quantity of diced vegetables boiled separately and mix in, seasoning to taste.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 296. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potage Alexandrina (7 qts 40 cents.) Whitefish a la Cardinal (4 lbs and trim- mings, 65 cents.) Potato crulls. Cold tongue. Potato salad (10 cents.) Roast beef (2 ribs 5 lbs net, 70 cents.) Roast Pork a I'Anglaise (6 lbs and dressing, 70 cents.) Veal cutlets a la Maintenon (20 orders, 45 cents.) Calves brains, sauce remoulade (6 or- ders, 12 cents.) Farina fritters, lemon flavor (cold pud- ding from yesterday, say, 10 cents.) Fried carrots 6, beets 4, squash 10, grated corn 20, tomatoes 10, potatoes 15 (65 cents.) BaKcd cabinet pudding (meringue d 2% qts 30 orders, 35 cents.) Pineapple cream pie (2 cans, 5 pies open, thm, 65 cents.) Peach sherbet (No. 235; with can peaches and 2 qts water, etc., 65 cents.) Queen cakes (No. 1007; 3 lbs 36 cents.) Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles (52 cents.) Milk, cream 60, coffee, tea, bread, butter 48 (108 cents.) Total, $7 48; 52 persons; 14 J^ cents a plate. 997'~Potage Alexandrina. It is a vegetable puree soup spotted with a jardiniere of mixed vegetables cooked separately. Set the strained soup stock over the fire with a cup of raw rice, a quart of green peas, a large turnip, squash, celery, kohl-rabi, leaks and onions, all in smaller quantity than the peas, and a piece of lean salt pork

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