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Celery Soup

Ingredients

• 2 heads of celery
• 1 quart of water
• 1 quart of milk
• 2 tablespoonfuls of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 2 tablespoonfuls of butter
• dash of pepper

Instructions

Wash and scrape celery and cut in half inch pieces, put in boiling water and cook until soft. Mash the celery in the water in which it is boiled and add salt and pepper. Let the milk come to a boil; cream together the butter and flour and stir the boiling milk into it slowly; then add celery and strain through a sieve mashing and pressing with the back of a spoon until all but the tough fibres of the celery are squeezed through. Return the soup to the fire and heat until it is steaming when it is ready to serve.

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Source

Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (1919).