Ingredients
some cabbage, carrots, celery, onions, turnips, lettuce, squash, potatoes, beans, and peas
a heaping tablespoon of butter
a piece of onion
salt and pepper
one tablespoon of tomato paste in one-third of a cup of hot water or one tomato, peeled and cut into small pieces
a slice of bread, cut into small squares, or diamonds?toast
Directions
Take some cabbage, carrots, celery, onions, turnips, lettuce, squash, potatoes, beans, and peas. Chop each into very small pieces, wash and drain.
Take a saucepan, put in a heaping tablespoon of butter; chop up another small piece of onion and add to butter and fry until onion is golden.
Then add all the vegetables, salt, and pepper, and cover the saucepan.
When the vegetables are half cooked, and their juice has become absorbed, dissolve one tablespoon of tomato paste in one-third of a cup of hot water, and add. Instead of the tomato paste there may be added to the onion, before putting in the vegetables, one tomato, peeled and cut into small pieces.
When the tomato is cooked add the vegetables.
Then add water, a little at a time, until you have sufficient quantity for two persons.
Take a slice of bread and cut into small squares or diamonds?toast or fry as desired?put these into the soup plates, and pour the soup (without straining) over them.
Notes
The recipe was first published "Simple Italian Cookery" by Antonia Isola (New York: Harpers Brothers, 1912). For the complete copyright-free text visit www.archive.org. Photo: Wikipedia. |
