Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients

• six small sweet potatoes
• two tablespoonfuls of finely-ground pine nuts
• one small onion
• one teaspoonful salt
• one teaspoonful celery seed
• two tablespoonfuls of olive oil
• a dash of cayenne pepper
• one quart of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Boil sweet potatoes, peel and mash.

2. 2

   Dissolve pine nuts in hot water, add grated onion, salt, celery seed, and boil for ten minutes.

3. 3

   Strain soup, mix in sweet potatoes, return to fire, add olive oil and cayenne, boil a few minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book (1909) by Hanish, Otoman Zar-Adusht-, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SWEET POTATO SOUP. Boil six small or four medium-sized sweet potatoes ; when done, peel and mash thru a sieve. Dissolve two table- spoonfuls of finely-ground pine nuts in one quart of hot water; add one small onion grated, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful celery seed and boil for ten minutes, while the sweet potatoes are being peeled and prepared. Strain the soup and mix in the sweet potatoes ; now return to the fire and add two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, a dash of cayenne pepper

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