Potato Soup

Ingredients

• Half a dozen fine potatoes
• Small onion
• 3 pints of water
• Very little salt
• Very little cayenne pepper
• A quarter of a pound of fresh butter
• 2 tablespoonfuls or more of sweet cream

Directions

1. Pare the potatoes and cut them and the small onion into thin slices.
2. Boil them in the water till so soft that you can pulp them through a cullender.
3. When returned to the pot add the salt and cayenne pepper.
4. Add the fresh butter, divided it into bits, and boil it 10 minutes longer.
5. When you put it into the tureen, stir in the sweet cream.

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Josh Romero
Louisiana Anthology
Dec 8, 2019