Potato Soup (Alternative)

Ingredients

• 1 pound of potatoes
• pound of onions
• 2 ounces of butter
• 3 pints of water
• a full teaspoonful of sugar
• pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Wash, pare, and slice potatoes; skin and chop onions.

2. 2

   Place in water with butter, boil until smooth.

3. 3

   Add sugar, boil again.

4. 4

   For richer soup, add milk with sugar.

5. 5

   Season with pepper and salt.

As published

This recipe was extracted from English and French cookery (1890) by Percy Lindley, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

3 pints of water for 4 hours. Pass through a hair-sieve, and rub the beans through with a wooden spoon. Put back into the saucepan, season with pepper and salt, stir till the soup boils, and serve. Potage a la Crecy. — Slice 12 large carrots and put into a stewpan, with 2 ounces of butter, a large lump of sugar, 3 good-sized onions, 2 turnips, 12 peppercorns, J pound of lean ham, a head of celery, and 4 leeks. Simmer gently over a gentle fire for 10 minutes. Shake the saucepan to prevent burning. Pour over them a quart of cold stock or water, with a teaspoonful of Liebig’s extract, and simmer until the vegetables are quite tender. Strain off the soup, and press the vegetables with a wooden spoon through a sieve. Mix the pulp again with the stock, season with pepper and salt, put back into the stew- pan, and boil. Skim and serve. Send toasted sippets to table in a separate dish. Potato Soup. — Boil a quart of milk with a stalk of celery and an onion. Boil 6 potatoes soft, and mash fine and light. Add the boiling milk, a tablespoonful of butter, and pepper and salt. Rub through a strainer’, and serve immediately. Potato Soup. — Wash, pare, and slice 1 pound of potatoes ; skin and chop ^ pound of onions. Place the potatoes, onions, and 2 ounces of butter in 3 pints of water, and boil until the potatoes and onions can be crushed smooth with a fork or spoon. Add a full tea- spoonful of sugar, and let the soup boil up again. If a richer soup is wanted, J pint of milk

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