Potato Soup

Ingredients

• Half a dozen fine potatoes
• A small onion
• Three pints of water
• Very litte salt
• Very little cayenne pepper
• Quarter pound of fresh butter
• Two tablespoons or more of sweet cream

Directions

1. Pare and slice half a dozen fine potatoes and a small onion.
2. Boil them in three pints of water till so soft that you can pulp them through a cullender.
3. Return them to the pot.
4. Add very little salt and cayenne pepper, and a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, divided into bits.
5. Boil it ten minutes longer.
6. Stir in two tablespoons or more of sweet cream once in the tureen.

Source — Creole Cookery Book.

Prepared by Cerrice R. Anderson

Louisiana Anthology

June 11, 2018