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Soup/Stew/Chowder Plain Potato Soup

plain potato soup
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
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Ingredients:

potatoes​
boiling water seasoned with salt​
for every quart of water & potatoes...​
1 quart sweet milk, or 1 pint rich sweet cream​
4 oz. butter​
4 tbsp. flour​
a little pepper and parsley​
Instructions:

Having scraped and washed your potatoes, slice them up and boil them in water with a little salt till quite soft; then to each quart of the liquid, add a quart of sweet milk, or a pint of rich sweet cream, four ounces of butter, rolled in four table-spoonfuls of flour, and a little pepper and parsley; stir it till comes to a boil, and then remove it from the fire.​


On a very cold day, as we are having today, there is nothing like a bowl of hot soup.
 
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Mom made that and served it with finely chopped raw onion. It was so good! She used it particularly when we were sickly. Potatoes and onions have lots of vitamin C! (Horatio Nelson preferred onions to limes for preventing scurvy in his crews - he did indeed have less of it!)
 
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