Vegetable Purée

Ingredients

• 4 lb. vegetables
• 4 pint of cooked pulse or 2 oz. raw rice
• 1 quart of water
• 0.5 oz. salt
• 1 teaspoonful of potato or corn flour
• 1 gill of milk

Method

1. 1

   ‘Sweat’ the vegetables as directed in farmers’ soup.

2. 2

   When ready, add the cooked pulse or raw rice, cover with water, add salt, and cook for 80 minutes.

3. 3

   Drain the liquor off the vegetables and pass the drained vegetables and rice or pulse through a mincing-machine, and then return to the liquid.

4. 4

   Mix the potato or corn flour smoothly in the milk, bring the soup to the boil, then add the thickened milk and bring to the boil again.

5. 5

   Taste and correct the seasoning, adding a little freshly ground pepper and 1 tablespoonful of cooked rice or any other garnish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The victory cookery book (1918) by Peel, C. S. Mrs, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Vegetable Purée | Materials —4 lb. vegetables, 4 pint of \cooked pulse or 2 oz. raw rice, 1 quart of jwater, } oz. salt, 1 teaspoonful of potato or ‘corn flour, 1 gill of milk. | Method.—“‘ Sweat.”” the vegetables as \directed in farmers? soup (see p. 25). ‘When ready, add the cooked pulse or raw ‘rice, cover with water, add salt, and cook ‘for 80 minutes. Drain the liquor off the vegetables and pass the drained vegetables vand rice or pulse through a mincing-machine, and then return to the liquid. Mix the 30 THE VICTORY COOKERY BOOK potato or corn flour smoothly in the milk, — bring the soup to the boil, then add the — thickened milk and bring to the boil again. © Taste and correct the seasoning, adding — a little freshly ground pepper and 1 table- | spoonful of cooked rice or any other garnish. — Mulligatawny Soup Materials.—4 oz. shredded onion, 1 oz. fat, } oz. curry powder, 2 oz. rice, 1 oz. chopped chutney, } oz. salt, 1 or 2 tomatoes, — 1 small sour apple, bunch of aromatic herbs, _ half a lemon, 8 or 4 crushed cardamon seeds, - 1 quart of water

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