Spring Lentil Soup

Ingredients

• 1 oz. butter or dripping
• f lb. onions sliced
• f lb. well-washed lentils
• 3 pints water
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put butter or dripping in large pan, add sliced onions, and simmer with lid on over gentle heat for 15 minutes.

2. 2

   Add well-washed lentils and water, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Simmer gently for 2 hours, put through sieve, and return to pot.

4. 4

   When boiling, add thin slices of carrot and turnip no thicker than a sixpence.

5. 5

   Boil for half an hour longer.

6. 6

   Then add a few green peas and some chopped parsley and boil for 16 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spring Lentil Soup. Put 1 oz. butter or dripping in large pan, add J lb. onions sliced, and simmer with lid on over gentle heat for 15 minutes. Add f lb. well-washed lentils and 3 pints water, salt and pepper

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