Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• four large carrots
• two onions
• four turnips
• a quarter of a stick of celery
• a sprig of thyme
• a tablespoonful of dried mushroom or of ketchup
• a pinch of Herbaceous Seasoning
• salt to taste
• one quart of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Stew all ingredients for 6-8 hours with the lid tightly down.

2. 2

   Strain the soup, keeping some vegetables aside.

3. 3

   Return clear soup to saucepan and add cut vegetables before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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