Quickly-Made Soup

Ingredients

• one tablespoonful of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of celery salt
• one saltspoonful of white pepper
• one quart of milk
• one small can of salmon

Method

1. 1

   Place butter in a stewpan until it boils but does not brown.

2. 2

   Add flour and mix thoroughly.

3. 3

   Add salt, celery salt, and white pepper.

4. 4

   Boil milk and add the hot thickening.

5. 5

   Remove bone and skin from salmon, mince it, and add to the milk.

6. 6

   Serve immediately.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

QUICKLY-MADE SOUP. BY MES. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON. (Daughter of Hon. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, and author of "The Children c the White House.") NOTHING perhaps is of more help to a house keeper than to be able to concoct at short notice a good soup. A meager lunch, or a light dinner is often turned into an attractive meal by the addition of a soup. Below is given one of the most simple of quickly-made soups : Place one tablespoonful of butter in a stewpan till it boils but does not brown. Add two tablespoonfuls of flour ; when all is thoroughly mixed add one tea- spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of celery salt, one saltspoonful of white pepper. Boil one quart of milk, and add the hot thickening. Bemove the bone and skin from one small can of salmon

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