Monday, June 4, 2018

Soup Without Meat

Ingredients:

  • Four or five cucumbers, according to size,
  • Three cupfuls of lettuce cut in shreds,
  • Two sprigs of mint,
  • A little parsley,
  • Two or three small onions (all shredded),
  • One pint of young peas,
  • A quarter pound of butter,
  • Salt,
  • Cayenne pepper
  • One pint of old peas 

Directions:

  1. Pare and cut the cucumbers into small, square pieces. 
  2. Add the lettuce, mint, parsley,onions, and young peas.
  3. Put all the herbs in a stewpan with the butter, salt, and cayenne pepper.
  4. Stew gently for an hour.
  5. Boil the old peas in a full quart of water.
  6. Run through a sieve, when quite soft, with a wooden spoon.
  7. Add the old peas and the water they were boiled in to the stewed herbs.
  8. Stew together for a full half hour. 
  9. Serve immediately.
Published by Marlie Giardina
June 1, 2018

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