Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• five or six cucumbers
• as many cos lettuces
• two or three onions
• a pint and a half of young peas
• 1/4 lb. of fresh butter
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Pare and slice cucumbers, add lettuces, mint, onions, pepper, salt, and peas.

2. 2

   Stew in butter for half an hour, then add boiling water and stew for two hours.

3. 3

   Thicken with flour and water, boil for twenty minutes, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 513. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VEGETABLE SOUP.— Pare and slice five or six cucumbers ; and add to these as many cos lettuces, a sprig or two of mint, two or three onions, some pepper, and salt, a pint and a half of young peas, and a little parsley. Put these, with J4 lb. of fresh butter

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