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XXXVI.— White Turnip Soup

From A Lenten cookery book (1876).

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A historical recipe

A Lenten cookery book, by Lear, Henrietta Louisa, formerly Farrer (1876).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a cup of milk

Cook safely

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

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • 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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Scrape and peel and cut up turnips according to the quantity of soup required, and put them to boil in lukewarm water.
  2. When half done, add one fifth as much of onion cut up, pepper and salt.
  3. When thoroughly done, take off the fire, and add a cup of milk and a piece of butter, stir well, and serve with dice of fried bread.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From A Lenten cookery book (1876), printed page 12, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ALentenCookeryBook

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.