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put them, together with a little chopped parsley, in a stew-kettle with about
three quarts of hot broth of any kind; cook slowly for three hours, season with
salt and pepper. Serve hot.
In chicken broth the same quantity of okra pods, used for thickening instead of
tomatoes, forms a chicken gumbo soup.
TAPIOCA CREAM SOUP.
One quart of white stock; one pint of cream or milk; one onion; two stalks
celery; one-third of a cupful of tapioca; two cupfuls of cold water; one
tablespoonful of butter; a small piece of mace; salt, pepper. Wash the tapioca
and soak over night in cold water. Cook it and the stock together very gently
for one hour. Cut the onion and celery into small pieces, and put on to cook for
twenty minutes with the milk and mace. Strain on the tapioca and stock. Season
with salt and pepper, add butter, and serve.
Soups Without Meat.
ONION SOUP.
One quart of milk, six large onions, yolks of four eggs, three tablespoonfuls of
butter, a large one of flour, one cupful of cream, salt, pepper. Put the butter
in a frying pan. Cut the onions into thin slices and drop in the butter. Stir
until they begin to cook; then cover tight and set back where they will simmer,
but not burn, for half an hour. Now put the milk on to boil, and then add the
dry flour to the onions and stir constantly for three minutes over the fire;
then turn the mixture into the milk and cook fifteen minutes. Rub the soup
through a strainer, return to the fire, season with salt and pepper. Beat the
yolks of the eggs well, add the cream to them and stir into the soup. Cook three
minutes, stirring constantly. If you have no cream, use milk, in which case add
a tablespoonful of butter at the same time. Pour over fried croutons in a soup
tureen.
This is a refreshing dish when one is fatigued.
WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP.
Scrape and slice three turnips and three carrots, and peel three onions, and fry
all with a little butter until a light yellow; add a bunch of celery and three
or four leeks cut in pieces; stir and fry all the ingredients for six minutes;
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