Vegetable Marrow Soup

Ingredients

• a large vegetable marrow
• a slice of fresh butter
• pepper
• salt
• grated nutmeg
• as much stock or water

Method

1. 1

   Pare and cut the marrow into quarters, remove seeds.

2. 2

   Dissolve butter in a stewpan, add marrow with pepper, salt, nutmeg, and sugar.

3. 3

   Shake over the fire for a few minutes, moisten with stock or water, and let stew gently until tender.

4. 4

   Rub through a fine sieve and add boiling stock to achieve desired consistency.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2177. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vegetable Marrow Soup.— Pare and cut in quarters a large vegetable marrow, and remove from it the seeds. Dissolve a slice of fresh butter in a stewpan, and put in the marrow with a Httle pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg, and a large lump of sugar. Shake it over the fire for a few minutes, and moisten with as much stock or water

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