Lettuce Cream Soup

Ingredients

• Put a generous pint of lettuce
• in a pint of weak broth
• a boiled onion minced fine
• 1 tablespoonful of butter
• a pint of hot milk
• 1 well beaten egg

Method

1. 1

   Cook lettuce in broth until tender and rub through a colander.

2. 2

   Stir in minced onion and butter.

3. 3

   Season hot milk with white pepper and salt, then stir in beaten egg.

4. 4

   Pour in the mixture and give a whirl with the egg-beater.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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