A Winter Fast-Day Soup

Name: A Winter Fast-Day Soup (Potage Maigre d’Hiver)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: A Tablespoonful of Butter, or Lard; A Handful of Spinach; A Bay Leaf; A Sprig Each of Mint, Thyme and Parsley; 2 Large Onions; 2 Turnips; A Carrot; A Head of Celery; A Lettuce, Chopped; 3 Quarts of Water; A Quart of Dried Peas

Potage Maigre d’Hiver

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

By The Times Picayune Publishing Company

Published 1901

About

Ingredients

A Quart of Dried Peas
3 Quarts of Water
A Lettuce

Americas
United States
New Orleans
Soup
Winter
Vegetarian

Method

Chop all the vegetables together, except the lettuce, and stew until they are perfectly soft. Then return to the fire with the chopped Lettuce, butter and a couple of pinches of sugar. Boil quickly about twenty minutes, and serve with Croutons.