turnip soup
(from The Kentucky Housewife, by Lettice Bryan, 1839)
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Ingredients:
piece of fresh beef or veal
turnips, small or large
flour
sweet milk
salt
cayenne pepper
Instructions:
Boil a nice piece of fresh beef or veal till about half done, carefully removing the scum. Have ready some small young turnips, a size larger than a hen's egg; scrape off the skin, leave on about an inch of the green tops, rinse them clean, and boil them with the meat till add is done. Then thicken the soup with a little flour and sweet milk, season it with salt and cayenne, give it another boil up, and serve it up with some of the turnips, which should remain whole. Turnip soup may be made of large turnips, but they should be sliced before they are cooked.
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