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Soupe Maigre. No. 4

Ingredients

• 3 carrots
• 3 turnips
• 3 heads of celery
• 3 leeks
• 6 onions
• 2 cabbage lettuces
• piece of butter, the size of an egg
• 1 pint of dried or green peas
• pepper
• salt
• rice

Instructions

Cut the carrots, turnips, celery, leeks, onions, and cabbage lettuces in small pieces; put them in your stewpan with the butter, peas, and two quarts of water, with a little pepper and salt. Simmer the whole over the fire till tender; then rub it through a sieve or tamis; add some rice, and let it simmer an hour before you serve it up.

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Source

The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).