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Lunch
Spring Soup
A turn-of-the-century lunch recipe featuring white stock i or ii, with the original instructions and source page intact.
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What you’ll need
Ingredients
- 1 quart White Stock I or II
- 1 large onion thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup stale baker’s bread
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup cream
- 2 tablespoons flour
- Salt and pepper
Make it happen
Directions
- 1
Cook onion fifteen minutes in one tablespoon butter; add to stock, with bread broken in pieces. Simmer one hour; 121 rub through sieve. Add milk, and bind with remaining butter and flour cooked together; add cream, and season.
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