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Lentil Soup

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Cream
  2. Must
  3. two quarts of cold water
  4. one pint of Eyptian lentils
  5. Milk
  6. Butter
  7. Salt
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take one pint of Eyptian lentils, well sorted, put them in a saucepan with two quarts of cold water and some salt, and let them boil for four hours ;
  2. then pass the puree, which must be very thick, through the sieve and put them back into the saucepan with some meat gravy, a little milk (cream if you wish to make it extra good), and dish it.
  3. As it is a very oleaginous plant it does not require any butter.
  4. The addition of a bone, of course, would make the soup better, but it really does not improve the taste.
  5. Like all the good purees, you must serve it with nice croutons.
  6. It is one of the nicest soups you can eat, and when you make it for company the improvement caused by the addition of cream is marvellous.
  7. Now, as partridges are in season, I must tell you that, besides eating them roasted or en Salmis (a dish I taught you during the last course), there is a very celebrated French dish done with them, called “Perdrix aux choux,” which Mrs.
  8. Ramsbottom, one of Theodore Hook’s heroines, some forty years ago, described as partridges with shoes, and went on saying that the French were such good cooks that they actually contrived to make an excellent dish with partridges and old shoes, in which dish the latter component was so completely disguised that, even knowing what it was, she could not possibly detect it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve