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Vegetable Soup

From A year's cookery, 1880

Serves 2

Serve the soup as hot as possible.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • an ounce of butter
  • three-quarters of a pint of milk
  • a heaped table-spoonful of crushed tapioca

Method

  1. When the water boils, throw in the vegetables, add the butter and a little pepper and salt.

  2. Boil for an hour.

  3. Pass the soup through a colander, and press the vegetables through with the back of a wooden spoon.

  4. Return pulp and soup to the saucepan, add milk, and stir till it boils.

  5. Sprinkle in the crushed tapioca gradually, and boil for about a quarter of an hour, stirring all the time to prevent lumps.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

an ounce of butter and a little pepper and salt. Boil for an hour. Pass the soup through a colander, and press the vegetables through with the back of a wooden spoon. Return pulp and soup to the saucepan, add three-quarters of a pint of milk, and stir till it boils. Sprinkle in gradually a heaped table-spoonful of crushed tapioca

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