Spinach Soup

Ingredients

• Quarter of a pock of spinach
• two ounces of parsley
• two carrots
• two onions
• one good-sized turnip
• one root of celery
• one ounce of butter
• a sprig or two of thyme
• a pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Stew vegetables and herbs with butter and water until soft.

2. 2

   Rub through a sieve, add boiling water, season, and boil for 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spinach Soup. Quarter of a pock of spinach, two oimces of parsley, two car- rots, two onions, one good-sized turnip, one root of celeiy, one ounce of butter, and a sprig or two of thyme. Put the vegetables and herbs into a stew-pan, with the butter, f a little salt, and a pint of water in which mushrooms, or the » stalks and parings of mushrooms, have been well boiled ; stew I till the vegetables are quite soft ; rub through a coarse sieve, I add a quart of boiling water, pepper and salt, and boil all to- j gether quarter of an hour. . No. 28. — Tomato Soup. \ Twelve ripe tomatoes, one onion, one pint of new milk, or « naif a pint of cream. > Divide the tomatoes, squeeze out the seeds, and cut off the ; stalks ; put them, with the onion and a pint of water, into a * VEGETARIAN COOKERY. 69 pan, and let them simmer about an hour. When they begin to boil, add some salt and Cayenne pepper. Press them through a sieve, put them again into the pan, and set them over the fire, and when hot, stir in the milk or cream, previously mixed with a tea-spoonful of flour and boiled five minutes. If fresh tomatoes cannot be procured, those in tins answer equally well. No. 29. — Vegetable Soup. One pound of celery, one pound of turnips, one pound of carrots, half a pound of beets, half a pound of parsley, half a pound of onions, two ounces of pearl barley, half a pint of dried green peas, and quarter of a pound of butter. Steep the peas in soft water twelve hours ; put them with the other vegetables into a pan, with six quarts of water and a table-spoonful of salt, and let all boil together about three hours ; rub the soup through a sieve or fine colander, return it into the pan, and let it boil ; and if not of a proper consistency, add a little peas or lentil flour rubbed till smooth, with a little cold water, and when it boils, stir in the butter and seasoning. The leaves of celery, dried and finely powdered, may be added after the soup has been strained. No. 30. — Vermicelli Soup. Six ounces of vermicelli, two quarts of new milk, the yolks of four eggs, one pint of cream, and one table-spoonful of mushroom catsup. Blanch the vermicelli by setting it on the fire in cold water ; when it boils, drain off the water, and put it into cold water ; let it remain a few minutes, and then drain the water entirely from it ; put it into a pan with the milk, and boil it ; beat up the yolks of the eggs, and after gradually adding a pint of boiled cream, strain through a sieve, and add the catsup. Take off the pan, add the eggs, a small lump of white sugar, and a tea-spoonful of salt, and stir the soup on the fire till near boiling. No. 31. — Barley Broth. Four ounces of Scotch barley, fom: ounces of onions, four ounces of oatmeal, or Indian meal, and two ounces of butter. 70 VEGETARIAN COOKERY. After wasliing the barley well, steep it in fresh water twelve hours ; set it on the fire in five quarts of water, adding the onions and a little salt, and boil gently an hour and a quarter. Melt the butter in a saucepan ; stir in the meal till it becomes a paste ; then add a little of the broth gradually, till it is a proper thickness to mix with the whole quantity ; stir well together till it boils, and mix with a little of the broth a dram of celery or cress seed, or half a dram of each, and a quarter of a dram of Cayenne pepper, all finely pounded ; stir well in the broth ; simmer it gently quai-ter of an hour longer, and add a little more salt if requii-ed. No. 32. — Scotch Broth. Four ounces of Scotch or pearl barley, tw’o ounces of groats, two turnips, two carrots

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