Lettuce Soup

Name: Lettuce Soup (Potage des Laitues)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 3 Quarts of Broth; A Teaspoonful of Flour; An Egg; A Tablespoonful of Butter; A Gill of Cream; Dices of Stale Bread; A Pinch of Sugar; A Spoonful of French Vinegar; A Large Head of Lettuce

Potage des Laitues

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

By The Times Picayune Publishing Company

Published 1901

About

Ingredients

A Large Head of Lettuce
A Spoonful of French Vinegar
An Egg

Americas
United States
Stew
Spicy
New Orleans
Vegetarian
Soup

Method

Prepare a good broth and cook till it is reduced to three pints; this will serve six persons. Chop the Lettuce fine and stew it with a tablespoonful of butter, adding the pinch of sugar and a spoonful of French Vinegar. Stir constantly, so that it will not burn. Add the flour (which has been rolled