Homemade Lentil Soup

Name: Homemade Lentil Soup
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 4 oz (100 g) lentils; 2 pints (generous 1 litre) ham or chicken stock; ¼ pint (1½ dl) milk; 2 small onions or leeks; ½ oz (15 g) butter; 2 small carrots; ½–1 level teaspoon salt; 1 oz (25 g) flour

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

The Times Cookery Book

By Katie Stewart

Published 1974

About

Ingredients

4 oz (100 g) lentils
2 pints (generous 1

Soup

Method

The use of good stock gives the best flavour to lentil soup. Use the cooking liquor from a boiled ham or gammon joint. Chicken stock made from a carcass or stock cubes is also very good.

Soak the lentils overnight in 1 pint (6