Easy dinner recipes: Minestre
Minestra is a thick broth, very much like hotch-potch, only thicker. In
Italy it is often served at the beginning of dinner instead of soup; it
also makes an excellent lunch dish. Two or three tablespoonful of soup will be found a great improvement to any of these minestre.
No. 1. A Condiment for Seasoning [...]
POTATO SOUP.
Use the water in which the potatoes were boiled, add three tablespoonfuls of mashed potato to a pint of water, and as much rich milk as there is water used, season with salt and a dust of cayenne pepper, a little juice of lemon or a little minced parsley or tarragon. Serve with crackers [...]
CLEAR CELERY SOUP.
1 large head of celery or 2 small ones, 1 large Spanish onion, 2 oz.
of butter, pepper and salt to taste, and 1 blade of mace. Chop the
onion and fry it brown in the butter (or vege-butter) in the saucepan
in which the soup is to be made. When brown, add 4 pints of [...]
